Gradle incredibly slow

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Hi, I’m using Gradle 1.8 with my Ubuntu 13.04, and JDK 7 from Oracle. Here is build.gradle:

task hello << {
  println "hello world!"
}

And here is the output:

:hello
hello world!
  BUILD SUCCESSFUL
  Total time: 6.213 secs

More than 6 seconds to execute this? My system is a Intel i5 with 4Gb of RAM memory. This makes impractical to use Gradle in production systems. I was further investigating this issue and came with an answer in a forum that with the daemon running is should be faster, but it isn’t. It doesn’t affect having the daemon in memory.

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How did you configured gradle to use the daemon? It seems the daemon is not used when running the build. BTW the first time you run a build with daemon option enabled you won’t see a difference in performance, as the daemon needs to be started first. but on a second run you should see a major performance improvement.

cheers, René

3

Yes, the daemon was running already. I just started it before with gradle --daemon hello. Ok, now without explanation, it cut down to 4 seconds, but still for a such simple task is a lot of time. I did the profiling:

Description
          Duration
Total Build Time
     4.083s
Startup
              1.974s
Settings and BuildSrc
0.712s
Loading Projects
     0.191s
Configuring Projects
 0.949s
Task Execution
       0.133s

This is already with the daemon running.

4

It shouldn’t be this slow. There’s something off on your machine. Do you have the JAVA_OPTS env var set?

5

No, it’s not set. I’ve also tried with another JVM, the JDK 6 but I get similar numbers.

6

Do you have another machine you can try on?

7

Note that you need to run with ‘–daemon’ on each build invocation in order for Gradle to use the daemon.

The alternative to add the following line to ‘~/.gradle/gradle.properties’:

org.gradle.daemon=true

Please ignore me if you’re already doing this.

8

I also face the same issue with Ubuntu 14.04. Interestingly when I use Fedora its lightening quick as Luke suggests it should be. There is something in Ubuntu/Mint that slows Gradle down. Pete Suggitt