JVM Out of memeory error when using multiple cluster profiles

Hello,

I am working on a project which involves loading a large number of images, extracting certain features and saving these features to the disk.

I am using 64 bit Matlab R2013a on a linux server with 64 cores.

I created 4 copies of the local(default) cluster profile, so that I have 5 cluster profiles which can create 60 workers.

I am running into JVM memory problems when using all the cluster profiles parallely. I am able to run 2 cluster profiles simulaneously, but when I try to start a 3rd cluster profile parallely, matlab crashes with the follwoing error:

---------------------------------------- Error -------------------------------------------------------

Stage: SPMD job test (createCommunicatingJob)

Status: Failed

Description:The job errored or did not reach state finished.

Command Line Output:(none)

Error Report:(none)

Debug Log:

LOG FILE OUTPUT:

[7]Opening log file: /home/nchavali/java.log.21286

[2]Opening log file: /home/nchavali/java.log.21291

[10]Opening log file: /home/nchavali/java.log.21283

[9]#

[9]# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:

[9]#

[9]# java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Cannot create GC thread. Out of system resources.

[9]#

[9]# Internal Error (gcTaskThread.cpp:38), pid=21284, tid=139962136192768

[9]# Error: Cannot create GC thread. Out of system resources.

[9]#

[9]# JRE version: 6.0_17-b04

[9]# Java VM: Java HotSpot™ 64-Bit Server VM (14.3-b01 mixed mode linux-amd64 )

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My code does not involve transfer of a large amount of data from client to workers.. My workers load image from a location specified in a variable, and save data into disk. And each worker saves data in different locations.

Can someone please help me is solving this problem.

This is a snippet of code that calls matlab workers:

clear;

load('foldernames.mat');

%loads folderNames variable

matlabpool open LocalProfile2;

parfor i=1:12

cffinal(folderNames(i,:));

end

exit;

Answer 1

[Elad]

maybe this could help: http://www.mathworks.com/products/image/description7.html

[Neelima]

Thanks you for your sugestion but my problem is not with the size of images as all the images I use are resized to 640x640 pixels. And I am not constrained memory on the computer. Matlab is not running out of memory, but JVM is. Can you tell me what causes this JVM error in matlab? I have seen in some answers, that this error can occur when there is a transfer of large amount of data between client and workers, but my code does not involve any such transfer.