Getting "Java heap space" error with Selenium 3.0.1

Pragnya Sahoo

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Dec 27, 2016, 2:31:21 AM12/27/16

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Hi All,

I'm using Selenium 3.0.1 with Firefox version 50 on Win 7.
So, when I'm running the below lines of code

System.setProperty("webdriver.gecko.driver", "D:\\Selenium\\geckodriver-v0.11.1-win64\\geckodriver.exe");
ProfilesIni profile = new ProfilesIni();
FirefoxProfile fp = profile.getProfile("Selenium");
DesiredCapabilities dc = DesiredCapabilities.firefox();
dc.setCapability(FirefoxDriver.PROFILE, fp);
WebDriver driver = new FirefoxDriver(dc);
driver.get("http://www.google.com");

getting the below error:

[GFX1-]: CreateShaderResourceView failed for format87
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
    at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.ensureCapacityInternal(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(Unknown Source)
    at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(Unknown Source)
    at java.io.StringWriter.write(Unknown Source)
    at com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter.string(JsonWriter.java:559)
    at com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter.writeDeferredName(JsonWriter.java:402)
    at com.google.gson.stream.JsonWriter.value(JsonWriter.java:495)
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$25.write(TypeAdapters.java:686)
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$25.write(TypeAdapters.java:704)
    at com.google.gson.internal.bind.TypeAdapters$25.write(TypeAdapters.java:642)
    at com.google.gson.internal.Streams.write(Streams.java:68)
    at com.google.gson.JsonElement.toString(JsonElement.java:324)
    at java.lang.String.valueOf(Unknown Source)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonToBeanConverter.convert(JsonToBeanConverter.java:92)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonToBeanConverter.convertMap(JsonToBeanConverter.java:343)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonToBeanConverter.convert(JsonToBeanConverter.java:217)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.JsonToBeanConverter.convert(JsonToBeanConverter.java:46)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:113)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.ProtocolHandshake.createSession(ProtocolHandshake.java:64)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.HttpCommandExecutor.execute(HttpCommandExecutor.java:141)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.service.DriverCommandExecutor.execute(DriverCommandExecutor.java:82)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.execute(RemoteWebDriver.java:601)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.startSession(RemoteWebDriver.java:241)
    at org.openqa.selenium.remote.RemoteWebDriver.<init>(RemoteWebDriver.java:128)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:259)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:247)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:242)
    at org.openqa.selenium.firefox.FirefoxDriver.<init>(FirefoxDriver.java:135)
    at TestPage.main(TestPage.java:18)

NOTE: But when I had previously ran the test with Selenium 2.53.1 (when gecko driver was not there) along with same firefox profile as stated above in the code, it was running fine.

Please help me in solving this issue.

Thanks in Advance
Pragnya Sahoo

⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝

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Dec 27, 2016, 2:51:59 AM12/27/16

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Your code is failing because your profile size is very huge. If you look at the stacktrace you would notice that the failure begins from createSession() which is where your profile gets serialized and the failure seems to arise from there.

Please check your profile size and get rid of things that you perhaps may not be needing.

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Pragnya Sahoo

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Dec 27, 2016, 3:17:12 AM12/27/16

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Thanks Krishnan for the reply... It worked after I removed some files.

But just want to know, is there any new changes as part Selenium 3.0.1 related to FirefoxProfile because as I had mentioned earlier I was able to run with same profile with Selenium 2.53.1 without deleting any files ?

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⇜Krishnan Mahadevan⇝

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Dec 27, 2016, 3:34:44 AM12/27/16

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I am not sure if there were any changes related to serialising profile data (I doubt if there were any). You may have to sift through GitHub commit history or look at the change history of the relevant classes (FirefoxDriver and FirefoxProfile) to figure out if there were any.

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