On Jenkins, Sonar post job MAVEN_OPTS doesn't seem to work

Question

On a particular Jenkins job, i need to configure the JVM PermSize and MaxPermSize for the Maven execution launched by Sonar.

I'll try different combinations that didn't work, mainly the MAVEN_OPTS fields, both on the main Jenkins build and on the Sonar post-job configuration.

The command-line displayed in the job log concerning Sonar is :

"D:\Program Files\<some-project>\pom.xml" -e -B sonar:sonar -Dsonar.jdbc.driver=com.mysql.jdbc.Driver "-Dsonar.jdbc.url=jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/sonar?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8" ******** ******** -Dsonar.host.url=http://<some-host>/sonar

So, no JVM options set. For the record, my wanted options are :

-XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m

Environnement:

• Windows 2008
• Jenkins 1.554.3
• Maven 3.0.3
• Sonar 3.7
• Sonar Jenkins Plugin : 2.1

Thank you !

Answer 1

For the unitary tests for example, Maven forked the Java process and the JVM options set with MAVEN_OPTS are not taken into account.

Maybe it's the same for the Sonar analysis.

If you are using a Maven profile to launch your Sonar analysis, can you check if you can set the JMV options in the <argLine> section?