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Created March 4, 2011 00:57
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Increase the java heap size to speed up your culerity/cucumber tests
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slow cucumber test fix
My culerity/cucumber tests were running at 30 minutes, now just six. JRuby was limiting the allocated memory to 512mb (or something). I increased this to a gigabyte and now everything flies:
>> JRUBY_INVOCATION="jruby -J-Xmx1024m" cucumber
More Info:
http://viralpatel.net/blogs/2009/01/jvm-java-increase-heap-size-setting-heap-size-jvm-heap.html
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