[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: Memory problems with 3.4/3.5 on Mac OSX

["Walter Harley" <eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Damian Harvey" <damianharvey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
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> I'm having difficulty with running Eclipse (3.4 and also 3.5) on Mac OSX 
> (10.5).
>
> In the past I've found that I can get away with the default Xms Xmx 
> settings (40M and 256M) and it will perform acceptably. However, my code 
> base has recently grown much larger and I'm finding that I'm running in 
> OutOfMemory errors.
>
> The obvious solution is to increase my Xms/Xmx. However when I do this the 
> Java Type Content Assist proposals suddenly stop working. For me, it's 
> like any deviation from the defaults causes these problems.

FWIW, both of those Eclipse versions work fine for me on 10.5.8, 
with -Xmx1024M.

What JVM version are you using?

What are the contents of your eclipse.ini, and how are you launching 
Eclipse?