Bug 491234 - Detect high memory consumption and frequent GC to advise incresing Xmx
Summary: Detect high memory consumption and frequent GC to advise incresing Xmx
Status: NEW
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Product: Platform
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: 4.5   Edit
Hardware: All All
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Assignee: Platform-UI-Inbox CLA
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Reported: 2016-04-07 08:13 EDT by Mickael Istria CLA
Modified: 2016-04-07 09:04 EDT (History)
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Description Mickael Istria CLA 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).