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3079307 - SWPM failed with: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded

Symptom

During the System rename service, SWPM Tool (SAP Note 1680045) fails with an error message:

sapinst_dev.log:

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ERROR <timestamp> (root/sapinst) (startInstallation) [CSiStepExecute.cpp:1104] id=controller.stepExecuted errno=FCO-00011 CSiStepExecute::execute()
The step ChangeOwnership with step key |offlineadjustment_distributed_ascs|ind|ind|ind|ind|0|0|offlineadjustment_dialogs|ind|ind|ind|ind|offlineAdjustmentAscs|0|offlineadjustment_system|ind|ind|ind|ind|system|0|ChangeOwnership was executed with status ERROR (Last error reported by the step: The JVM reports an exception during execution of class ( com.sap.sdt.ins.component.offlineadjustment_system.ChangeOwnership ) and function executeStepClass. DETAILS: The reported error message from JVM is: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded (max heap: 512 MB)
at java.io.File.listFiles(File.java:1222)
at com.sap.sdt.inst.services.filercopy.offline.fs.AdjustSAPSystemFS.distributeSubDirsForChownMode(AdjustSAPSystemFS.java:376)
at com.sap.sdt.inst.services.filercopy.offline.fs.AdjustSAPSystemFS.collectSubdirsToChown(AdjustSAPSystemFS.java:342)
at com.sap.sdt.inst.services.filercopy.offline.fs.AdjustSAPSystemFS.getSapmntSidSubdirs(AdjustSAPSystemFS.java:320)
at com.sap.sdt.inst.services.filercopy.offline.fs.AdjustSAPSystemFS.changeOwnershipUNX(AdjustSAPSystemFS.java:191)
at com.sap.sdt.inst.services.filercopy.offline.fs.AdjustSAPSystemFS.setFileSystemPermissions(AdjustSAPSystemFS.java:542)
at com.sap.sdt.ins.component.offlineadjustment_system.ChangeOwnership.execute(ChangeOwnership.java:22)

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Environment

All SAP NetWeaver based product on Unix/Linux OS

Keywords

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded, GC overhead limit exceeded , KBA , BC-INS-SWPM , Installation with Software Provisioning Manager , Problem

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