Weblogic bsu - java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

sometime you can find the java heap space issue while applying weblogic patches using bsu. The error looks like below


Exception in thread "main" Exception in thread "Thread-0" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at java.util.HashMap.createEntry(HashMap.java:897)
        at java.util.HashMap.addEntry(HashMap.java:884)
        at java.util.HashMap.put(HashMap.java:505)
        at com.bea.cie.common.dao.xbean.XBeanDataHandler.loadPropertyMap(XBeanDataHandler.java:778)
        at com.bea.cie.common.dao.xbean.XBeanDataHandler.<init>(XBeanDataHandler.java:99)
        at com.bea.cie.common.dao.xbean.XBeanDataHandler.createDataHandler(XBeanDataHandler.java:559)
        at com.bea.cie.common.dao.xbean.XBeanDataHandler.getComplexValue(XBeanDataHandler.java:455)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.dao.cat.PatchCatalogHelper.getPatchDependencies(PatchCatalogHelper.java:442)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.dao.cat.PatchCatalogHelper.getPatchDependencies(PatchCatalogHelper.java:464)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.dao.cat.PatchCatalog.getPatchDependencies(PatchCatalog.java:56)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.dao.cat.PatchCatalogHelper.getInvalidatedPatchMap(PatchCatalogHelper.java:1621)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchSystem.updatePatchCatalog(PatchSystem.java:436)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchSystem.refresh(PatchSystem.java:130)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchSystem.<init>(PatchSystem.java:114)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchSystem.<clinit>(PatchSystem.java:41)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.Patch.main(Patch.java:279)
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchSystem
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchClientHelper.getAllPatchDetails(PatchClientHelper.java:74)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchInstallationHelper.cleanupPatchSets(PatchInstallationHelper.java:130)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchTarget.<init>(PatchTarget.java:272)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.PatchTargetFactory.create(PatchTargetFactory.java:30)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.ProductAliasTarget.constructPatchTargetList(ProductAliasTarget.java:88)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.ProductAliasTarget.<init>(ProductAliasTarget.java:46)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.ProductAliasTargetHelper.getProdAliasTargetList(ProductAliasTargetHelper.java:55)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.ProductAliasTargetHelper.getAllHomeToProdAliasesTargetMap(ProductAliasTargetHelper.java:32)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.ProductAliasTargetHelper.checkProfilesInProductAliases(ProductAliasTargetHelper.java:133)
        at com.bea.plateng.patch.Patch$1.run(Patch.java:376)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)




Solution


1. open the bsu.sh (MIDDLEWARE_HOME/utils/bsu/bsu.sh) file edit mode
2. change the memory args value as below


From


MEM_ARGS="-Xms256m -Xmx512m"


To


MEM_ARGS="-Xms512m -Xmx1024m"


3. Save the file and run bsu again.