java.lang.OutOfMemoryError when uploading, to GitHub Releases, an artifact of big size

[carlosthe19916]

I have an artifact defined as :

distributions:
  my-artifact:
    artifacts:
      - path: myArtifact.zip

• The artifact needs to be uploaded to the GitHub Release set of Assets.
• The size of the ZIP file is 621MB

Using this GitHub Action I always see the following output:

Error: Exception in thread "main" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
  	at java.base/java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:3745)
  	at java.base/java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.grow(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:120)
  	at java.base/java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.ensureCapacity(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:95)
  	at java.base/java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.write(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:156)
  	at java.base/sun.net.www.http.PosterOutputStream.write(PosterOutputStream.java:78)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.GitHubHttpUrlConnectionClient$HttpURLConnectionResponseInfo.buildRequest(GitHubHttpUrlConnectionClient.java:145)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.GitHubHttpUrlConnectionClient$HttpURLConnectionResponseInfo.setupConnection(GitHubHttpUrlConnectionClient.java:119)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.GitHubHttpUrlConnectionClient.getResponseInfo(GitHubHttpUrlConnectionClient.java:55)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.GitHubClient.sendRequest(GitHubClient.java:387)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.GitHubClient.sendRequest(GitHubClient.java:355)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.Requester.fetch(Requester.java:76)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.GHRelease.uploadAsset(GHRelease.java:249)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.kohsuke.github.GHRelease.uploadAsset(GHRelease.java:224)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.sdk.github.Github.uploadAssets(Github.java:156)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.sdk.github.GithubReleaser.createRelease(GithubReleaser.java:213)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.sdk.github.GithubReleaser.createRelease(GithubReleaser.java:126)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.model.releaser.spi.AbstractReleaser.release(AbstractReleaser.java:51)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.engine.release.Releasers.release(Releasers.java:44)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.workflow.ReleaseWorkflowItem.invoke(ReleaseWorkflowItem.java:34)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.workflow.WorkflowImpl.execute(WorkflowImpl.java:66)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.cli.FullRelease.doExecute(FullRelease.java:144)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.cli.AbstractModelCommand.execute(AbstractModelCommand.java:81)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.cli.AbstractCommand.call(AbstractCommand.java:36)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.cli.AbstractModelCommand.call(AbstractModelCommand.java:47)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.org.jreleaser.cli.AbstractCommand.call(AbstractCommand.java:29)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.picocli.CommandLine.executeUserObject(CommandLine.java:1953)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.picocli.CommandLine.access$1300(CommandLine.java:145)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.executeUserObjectOfLastSubcommandWithSameParent(CommandLine.java:2358)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2352)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.handle(CommandLine.java:2314)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.picocli.CommandLine$AbstractParseResultHandler.execute(CommandLine.java:2179)
  	at jreleaser.shadow.picocli.CommandLine$RunLast.execute(CommandLine.java:2316)
  Error: Process completed with exit code 1.

Note: I've executed JReleaser locally on my Laptop to upload the desired ZIP file and it worked well. I suppose this issue has to do with Github Actions Environment itself.

Is there a way to avoid fix this issue?

[aalmiray]

Wow, that is indeed a very BIG file. A possible fix would be to specify JVM parameters that tweak memory settings however the action does not allow such parameters to be passed to the underlying Java process, not yet.

[aalmiray]

Fixed with 2.2.0 and v2.