SikuliX

OpenCV exception can't be caught (out of memory) and kills JVM

Asked by Paul Chambre

Using the 1.1.3 or 1.1.4 API jar, I intermittently get exceptions like this:

Exception in thread "main" CvException [org.opencv.core.CvException: cv::Exception: OpenCV(3.4.2) C:\build\3_4_winpack-bindings-win64-vc14-static\opencv\modules\core\src\matrix.cpp:367: error: (-215:Assertion failed) u != 0 in function 'cv::Mat::create'
]
        at org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc.matchTemplate_1(Native Method)
        at org.opencv.imgproc.Imgproc.matchTemplate(Imgproc.java:2612)
        at org.sikuli.script.Finder2.doFindMatch(Finder2.java:357)
        at org.sikuli.script.Finder2.doFind(Finder2.java:327)
        at org.sikuli.script.Finder2.find(Finder2.java:79)
        at org.sikuli.script.Finder.find(Finder.java:244)
        at org.sikuli.script.Region.runFinder(Region.java:2861)
        at org.sikuli.script.Region.doFind(Region.java:2817)
        at org.sikuli.script.Region.access$300(Region.java:21)
        at org.sikuli.script.Region$RepeatableFind.run(Region.java:3075)
        at org.sikuli.script.Region$Repeatable.repeat(Region.java:3028)
        at org.sikuli.script.Region.exists(Region.java:2378)
        at com.illumon.guitest.IrisGuiTestFramework.multiPatternExists(IrisGuiTestFramework.java:68)
        at com.illumon.guitest.IrisGuiTestFramework.multiPatternExistsExact(IrisGuiTestFramework.java:51)
        at com.illumon.guitest.TestIrisGui.doChartTest(TestIrisGui.java:179)
        at com.illumon.guitest.TestIrisGui.run(TestIrisGui.java:148)
        at com.illumon.guitest.TestIrisGui.main(TestIrisGui.java:372)

Line 179 of TestIrisGui is in the midst of a try/catch(Exception) block, but it does not catch this exception, and, in fact, the whole process tree may get killed when this occurs.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Paul

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#1

according to my research in the net, this problem occurs, if internally OpenCV cannot allocate enough memory (so in fact it is an out of memory problem).

possible reasons:
- system memory to small (not enough available for SikuliX)
- images too big (search on whole screen with large monitors)

I will check, wether this exception can be catched internally.

Looks like Java programming: in IDE's (Eclipse, IDEA, ...) you can track the memory consumption.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#2

It looks like you are using your own OpenCV libs?

Can you tell me more about your setup?

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Paul Chambre (pchambredh) said : 		#3

This setup is a Windows 10 VM running under VirtualBox on OSX.

I am not using my own OpenCV libraries. I am using whatever is built into the 1.1.3 and 1.1.4 SikuliX API SNAPSHOT jars. I have certainly seen this problem with 1.1.3. I don't remember whether I've seen it since switching to 1.1.4.

1.1.4 required me to add a few other jars for runtime support (TigerVNC and bridj) that seemed to have been built-in to the 1.1.3 jar.

The problem seemed to happen more often after the system had been running for a while.... (maybe resource limitations / memory leak causing issues), but looking at Task Manager did not show any obvious shortages of memory or CPU. A reboot did make it go away for a while, though.

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RaiMan (raimund-hocke) said : 		#4

--- I am not using my own OpenCV libraries
C:\build\3_4_winpack-bindings-win64-vc14-static\opencv\modules\core\src\matrix.cpp
where the exception happened is surely not the OpenCV bundled with 1.1.3 nor 1.1.4

--- 1.1.4 required me to add a few other jars for runtime support (TigerVNC and bridj)
then you neither use the sikulixapi.jar (complete with all deps and libs) nor are you running a Maven project with a dep to sikulixapi.

Before doing anything else, you should revise your SikuliX setup according to the docs.

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