Our instance of jenkins has been becoming unresponsive after it has been running for several hours. We are on Windows Server 2008 R2 with Jenkins 1.647 and Java 1.8.0_73-b02. The jenkins process is ...

I'd say the problem is that you're even dealing with a 2Gb XML file to begin with. XML is designed mostly as a method to exchange data between programs. What it looks like you're doing here is using ...