Build failed: Unrecognized VM option 'UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap'

[duailibe]

Orb version: 5.6.0

What happened

The build failed with the following error (in "Downloading Gradle Dependencies"):

Picked up _JAVA_OPTIONS: -Xmx2g -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap
Unrecognized VM option 'UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap'
Error: Could not create the Java Virtual Machine.
Error: A fatal exception has occurred. Program will exit.

Exited with code exit status 1

I noticed this orb uses a non-pinned image of react-native-community/react-native, and that image was updated last week to use JDK 11 which completely removes the UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap option.

I'm not that familiar with JVM options so I just changed config.yml to pass java_options without that flag and the build succeeded. Moving forward I found this article which might help decide with the defaults should be.

[cortinico]

I noticed this orb uses a non-pinned image of react-native-community/react-native

I believe that's an issue and should be fixed.

and that image was updated last week to use JDK 11 which completely removes the UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap option.

True. If running on JDK11 the UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap option should be removed.
I think this orb should be update to:

• Release a version (say 5.7.0) which relies on a pinned version of the docker container that runs on JDK8 (anything on 4.x).
• Release another version (say 6.0.0) which relies on a pinned version of the docker container that runs on JDK11 (anything on 5.x).

[mikehardy]

In the meantime, we're dead in the water because of this line :-)

react-native-circleci-orb/src/executors/linux_android.yml

Line 5 in 1b12f2a

default: '-Xmx1024m -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UseCGroupMemoryLimitForHeap'

I liked your suggestion @cortinico and I lined up two PRs #121 and #122 to implement it. Until they are done our CI is broken and we will have trouble validating releases, for example:
https://github.com/react-native-share/react-native-share/pull/1124/checks?check_run_id=4251523347

[vonovak]

closed via #122. Please open a new issue if the problem persists :)