Questions tagged [gradle-daemon]
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To run dex in process, the Gradle daemon needs a larger heap. It currently has approximately 910 MB
I am getting this Gradle error every time I run my app. The error is:
To run dex in process, the Gradle daemon needs a larger heap.
It currently has approximately 910 MB.
For faster builds, increase the maximum heap size for the Gradle daemon to…

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Kill all Gradle Daemons Regardless Version?
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I would like to know how to kill every single gradle daemon and process running on a machine regardless of the version of gradle or the version of the daemon, but the "--kill" or "--stop" command will only stop those processes that match the…

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How to disable Gradle daemon in IntelliJ Idea?
I need to disable the Gradle daemon in IntelliJ Idea, because somehow Scala plugin is not working with the daemon (the compilation fails with NullPointerException).
I have tried to edit my IntelliJ Gradle build configurations to include a JVM system…

Anatoliy Kmetyuk
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High memory usage by gradle daemon
I am using Gradle 2.5 to compile a Java project which consists of 5 modules. In order to speed things up I also use the gradle-daemon. However, During compilation there are up to 18 instances of the gradle-daemon running. After compilation finishes…
user4918296
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Jenkins Builds Fail Using the Gradle Daemon
While trying to improve performance of my Gradle Android builds, I stumbled across the Gradle Daemon, and have been using it with great success for local builds.
However, when running under Jenkins on Ubuntu 14.04, builds are intermittently failing…

Will
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"Starting a new Gradle Daemon for this build (subsequent builds will be faster)"... every time
I use Gradle 2.10 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS
I was getting told "This build could be faster, please consider using the Gradle Daemon" so I created a ~/.gradle/gradle.properties file containing org.gradle.daemon=true.
Result: Every time I run ./gradlew…

Nicolas Raoul
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Gradle --no-daemon starts the daemon?
How to I keep gradle from ever talking to the daemon?
./gradlew --no-daemon -Porg.gradle.daemon=false -Dorg.gradle.daemon=false build -x test
Starting daemon
IDLE
We run jenkins nodes on ecs so the daemon doesn't seem to buy us much. In addition,…

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How to use/start the gradle daemon on a Mac?
Every time I execute a gradle command on Mac I get a message saying:
"This build could be faster, please consider using the Gradle Daemon: https://docs.gradle.org/2.10/userguide/gradle_daemon.html"
I've created a gradle.properties file with the…

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I don't have a proxy, but Gradle says "Connect to 127.0.0.1:8888 [/127.0.0.1] failed", even after removing ~/.gradle
My gradle seems to insist on downloading packages from what looks like a proxy address. With this command I stop all Gradle daemons, remove any Gradle configuration, and build a random project from GitHub that has no proxy settings in its…

Nicolas Raoul
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How to force Intellij IDEA to use only one gradle daemon?
I know it may look like a duplicate of How to disable Gradle daemon in IntelliJ Idea?, but I don't want to completely disable gradle daemon. I just want to use only one daemon, not many of them.
The problem I have is that to successfully run some…

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How to know whether you are running inside a gradle daemon
We have a situation where we take up a Jetty instance inside the VM that runs gradle.
However, this fails pretty badly when we are running inside a gradle daemon: We don't get rid of the Jetty instance totally, so it have to die with the gradle…

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Extending the Gradle Daemon idle timeout
I'm using gradle and intellij to build my android project. I've noticed that after one minute the daemon process shut down and I can see in the daemon-11188.out.log that the idle timeout is set to 60000 (idleTimeout=60000).
Here is the line from the…

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Create New Project Android Studio 0.2.3 - Unable to start Gradle daemon process
I'm having serious problems with Android Studio.
I have totally uninstalled Android Studio, and any copies of Eclipse on my PC.
I then deleted the .gradle .android folders in the users folder.
I then Re-installed the latest release on my PC.
The…

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Reduce gradle daemon disk space (it takes up to 50GB)
I'm developing in Android Studio with gradle.
My .gradle/daemon/ takes up to 50GB of space.
It consist of about 50 files between 1MB and 3GB in size.
How can I reduce size of that folder? How to clean it up safely?

Marian Paździoch
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android studio Error:Unable to start the daemon process
Version of Android Studio 2.2
OS version: Windows 10
Java JRE/JDK version: 1.8.0_51
Error:Unable to start the daemon process. This problem might be
caused by incorrect configuration of the daemon. For example, an
unrecognized jvm option is…

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