Troubleshooting BIRTReportGenerator

Occasionally, you might encounter an out of memory error when you generate a report. You might see a message similar to the following in the command-line output:

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: GC overhead limit exceeded

To increase the memory allocated for BIRTReportGenerator, add the -Xmx option to the BIRTReportGenerator command. In the following example, 32 GB is allocated to BIRTReportGenerator to run a report:

BIRTReportGenerator -template "DISA STIG" -source myproject.fpr -format PDF -output myproject_report.pdf -Xmx32G