Load Data Warehouse job crashes the BG service with OutOfMemory on Kettle class org.pentaho.di.job.Job

Article Id: 130156

Status: Published

Updated On: 15-10-2020 08:51

Products:

Clarity PPM On Premise , Clarity PPM SaaS , Clarity PPM On Premise

Issue/Introduction:

BG service crashes, on running Load Data Warehouse job
STR:
1. Run Load Data Warehouse job
Expected Results: The job to run fine
Actual Results: The Bg service crashes with OutOfMemory error

In the Java Heap dump we can see hundreds of different threads and many hundreds of instances for org.pentaho.di.job.Job class
jobName DWH_DIM_LOAD
jobFileName file:///clarity/META-INF/datamart/etl_scripts/dwh_etl_interface/../dwh_population_dim/DWH_DIM_LOAD.kjb

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Resolution:

This is a suspected Pentaho (third party) memory leak, raised with Engineering as DE48382/DE58383