Bug 491234

Summary:	Detect high memory consumption and frequent GC to advise incresing Xmx
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Mickael Istria <mistria>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	NEW ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	P3	CC:	antoine.thomas
Version:	4.5
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Mickael Istria

2016-04-07 08:13:52 EDT

It would be nice if the Eclipse IDE could detect when its memory consumption gets close from the max heap size, and in such case advise (or even directly enable via UI) to increase the Xmx to a higher value (+1024m for example).