Github Action failed with out of memory error

I would like to deploy a project with Github Action. I can’t use SSH copy file because I can’t add all IP addresses in white list on my server.

So I use a Linux self-hosted runner to try.

When I test my connexion with the server in the goal of testing a simple action, it works perfectly.

name: Hello World
on: [push]

jobs:
  one:
    name: Hello
    runs-on: self-hosted
    steps:
      - run: echo "hello world"

But when I want to use some actions like checkout, it works with ‘ubuntu-20.04’ but not with a self hosted runner on my server.

name: Deployment to production

on:
  push:
    branches:
      - master
     
jobs:
  auto-pull:
    name: Build and deploy
    runs-on: self-hosted
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2

In Github Repo settings, my runner is green with ‘Idle’

I do not see any errors in logs of the runner on the server. I juste see ‘Job Build and deploy completed with result: Failed’ in the CLI just after the workflow start. In Github, the workflow failed with ‘Out of memory’ error after a few time.

So I would like to find a solution to use Self-hosted runner or another method to solve the problem of the SSH access to deploy my project. Thanks in advance

[figadore]

Since this issue is high on the Google results for this error, I hope it’s ok to offer my workaround here. I was able to get a memory-intensive job to run by adding swap space (e.g. using this GitHub Action)

[ericdallo]

@figadore thanks! how much do you recommend for the swap for a windows runner? I’m currently having OOM errors for graalvm builds only for windows, linux and mac works good