Package compiler errors with "system image too large" message

General Usage
1

Trying to create a sysimage using vscode build task. This has worked forever but today cannot get it to compile. It returns a “system image too large” error message.

Anybody else having this problem?

Version Info 
VSCode version 1.70.1

Julia Version 1.8.0-rc4
Commit 7853436ccd (2022-08-08 07:55 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 64 × Intel(R) Xeon(R) Gold 6242 CPU @ 2.80GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-13.0.1 (ORCJIT, cascadelake)
  Threads: 1 on 64 virtual cores
Error trace 
  Activating project at `c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\environments\sysimagecompile\fallback`
[ Info: Now building a custom sysimage for the environment 'c:\Users\bguenter\Source\github\OpticSim.jl', excluding dev packages 'Symbol[]'.
┌ Info: Included packages: 
│       - Pkg
│       - ForwardDiff
│       - HTTP
│       - Luxor
│       - WGLMakie
│       - Zygote
│       - DataFrames
│       - SpecialFunctions
│       - Distributions
│       - ZipFile
│       - SHA
│       - LinearAlgebra
│       - Format
│       - ColorTypes
│       - LazySets
│       - Makie
│       - JSServe
│       - Polynomials
│       - GeometryBasics
│       - FileIO
│       - PackageCompiler
│       - GLMakie
│       - CSV
│       - Revise
│       - PlutoUI
│       - Random
│       - Libdl
│       - Optim
│       - Conda
│       - ColorSchemes
│       - ReverseDiff
│       - PyCall
│       - Images
│       - Plots
│       - Pluto
│       - Unitful
│       - StaticArrays
│       - ImageView
│       - Statistics
│       - MeshIO
│       - JuMP
│       - DelimitedFiles
│       - Roots
│       - Ipopt
│       - NLopt
│       - StringEncodings
│       - Colors
└       - InteractiveUtils
[ Info: Precompile statement files: String[]
[ Info: Precompile execution files: String[]
⣄ [14m:28s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system imageERROR: system image too large
✖ [14m:29s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system image
ERROR: LoadError: failed process: Process(`'C:\Users\bguenter\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.0-rc4+0.x64\bin\julia.exe' --color=yes --startup-file=no --cpu-target=native -O3 '--sysimage=C:\Users\bguenter\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.0-rc4+0.x64\lib\julia\sys.dll' '--project=c:\Users\bguenter\Source\github\OpticSim.jl' '--output-o=C:\Users\bguenter\AppData\Local\Temp\jl_GFy7i9o5G7.o' 'C:\Users\bguenter\AppData\Local\Temp\jl_kXO1QBQrmz'`, ProcessExited(1)) [1]

Stacktrace:
 [1] pipeline_error
   @ .\process.jl:565 [inlined]
 [2] run(::Cmd; wait::Bool)
   @ Base .\process.jl:480
 [3] run
   @ .\process.jl:477 [inlined]
 [4] #14
   @ c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\packages\PackageCompiler\ext\TerminalSpinners.jl:157 [inlined]
 [5] spin(f::PackageCompiler.var"#14#15"{Cmd}, s::PackageCompiler.TerminalSpinners.Spinner{Base.TTY})
   @ PackageCompiler.TerminalSpinners c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\packages\PackageCompiler\ext\TerminalSpinners.jl:164
 [6] macro expansion
   @ c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\packages\PackageCompiler\ext\TerminalSpinners.jl:157 [inlined]
 [7] create_sysimg_object_file(object_file::String, packages::Vector{String}, packages_sysimg::Set{Base.PkgId}; project::String, base_sysimage::String, precompile_execution_file::Vector{String}, precompile_statements_file::Vector{String}, cpu_target::String, script::Nothing, sysimage_build_args::Cmd, extra_precompiles::String, incremental::Bool)
   @ PackageCompiler c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\packages\PackageCompiler\src\PackageCompiler.jl:359
 [8] create_sysimage(packages::Vector{Symbol}; sysimage_path::String, project::String, precompile_execution_file::Vector{String}, precompile_statements_file::Vector{String}, incremental::Bool, filter_stdlibs::Bool, cpu_target::String, script::Nothing, sysimage_build_args::Cmd, include_transitive_dependencies::Bool, base_sysimage::Nothing, julia_init_c_file::Nothing, version::Nothing, soname::Nothing, compat_level::String,
 extra_precompiles::String)
   @ PackageCompiler c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\packages\PackageCompiler\src\PackageCompiler.jl:510
 [9] top-level scope
   @ c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\tasks\task_compileenv.jl:94
in expression starting at c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\tasks\task_compileenv.jl:94

 *  The terminal process "C:\Users\bguenter\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.8.0-rc4+0.x64\bin\julia.exe '--color=yes', '--startup-file=no', '--history-file=no', 'c:\Users\bguenter\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.6.31\scripts\tasks\task_compileenv.jl', 'c:\Users\bguenter\Source\github\OpticSim.jl'" terminated with exit code: 1. 
 *  Terminal will be reused by tasks, press any key to close it.
1 Like