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Build: NetBeans IDE 6.1 (Build 200804211638) VM: Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM, 10.0-b23, Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment, 1.6.0_07-b91 OS: Linux, 2.6.24-21-generic, i386 User comments: STACKTRACE: (first 10 lines) java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space at java.util.Arrays.copyOf(Arrays.java:2882) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.expandCapacity(AbstractStringBuilder.java:100) at java.lang.AbstractStringBuilder.append(AbstractStringBuilder.java:515) at java.lang.StringBuffer.append(StringBuffer.java:306) at java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:345) at java.io.LineNumberReader.readLine(LineNumberReader.java:182) at org.netbeans.modules.search.BasicSearchCriteria.checkFileContent(BasicSearchCriteria.java:642) at org.netbeans.modules.search.BasicSearchCriteria.matches(BasicSearchCriteria.java:575) at org.netbeans.modules.search.SpecialSearchGroup.processSearchObject(SpecialSearchGroup.java:108) at org.netbeans.modules.search.SpecialSearchGroup.doSearch(SpecialSearchGroup.java:88)
From the callstack, particularly from its frame java.io.BufferedReader.readLine(BufferedReader.java:345), it is apparent that the OutOfMemoryError occurred while searching a file with very long lines (thousands characters without CR or LF), most probably a binary file. Because the searching routine skips files that are known to be binary files, this must have been an unrecognised file, a large unrecognised file. Such issue was resolved recently - it is issue #129557. *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 129557 ***