Warn about metadata and heap size ?

[Rod Widdowson]

> Just wondering if in v3 we want the metadata resolver to warn and possibly
> not reload if a metadata file size is larger than some value. For example, -
> Xmx768m does not seem quite enough for the ~20m UK federation
> metadata. I guess I would rather see a log message at warn that says “raise
> your heap size” than “java.lang.OutOfMemoryError”, unless of course the
> latter is recoverable.

My instinct is that this is being overly cute.  It’s the misanthropist in me, but I cannot help but believe that the people who might benefit from this wouldn't see the warning, and the ones who would see the warning wouldn't need it.