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"java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC Overhead Limit Exceeded" Error When Running BI Publisher Reports (Doc ID 1503149.1)

Last updated on MARCH 22, 2023

Applies to:

BI Publisher (formerly XML Publisher) - Version 11.1.1.6.0 to 11.1.1.6.x [Release 11.1]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
Reviewed for Relevance 29 Nov 18.

Symptoms

Servers crash frequently.  Users are submitting BI Publisher reports that are failing. In the bipublisher.log file the following error appears:

Caused by: java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException

at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at oracle.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.invokeParse(XSLT10gR1.java:755)
at oracle.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(XSLT10gR1.java:310)
at oracle.xdo.common.xml.XSLTWrapper.transform(XSLTWrapper.java:187)
at oracle.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:1209)
... 54 more
Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded

 

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