[news.eclipse.tools.jdt] Re: How to prevent out of memory errors?

[james_adams@xxxxxxxxx (James Adams)]

Unfortunately this isn't really helping, no matter how I monkey with the 
heap or permanent generation memory values.  I was using the values below 
in my eclipse.ini the last time it crashed (OutOfMemoryError: PermGen 
space):

-vmargs
-Xms120m
-Xmx1024m
-XX:PermSize=256M
-XX:MaxPermSize=512M

I recently added another 2Gb of RAM to my system in order to avoid just 
this sort of problem.  I thought I could just pop it in and not have to 
update any of my Windows XP system configuration settings.  Was this 
perhaps just wishful thinking, i.e. is it possible that this is a problem 
outside of the realm of Eclipse which might require for me to make some 
system configuration changes for my extra memory?  Bear in mind that 
Eclipse is the only program I run on this system which crashes because it 
runs out of memory, and it happens when there is a full 1Gb or more of 
memory to spare.  Fortunately when this sort of crash happens Eclipse 
doesn't corrupt or lose much data other than its UI state, but this 
periodic crashing (once every two hours or so) is an annoyance I'd like to 
avoid if possible, especially since I just spent $250 for additional 
memory which I thought would prevent this sort of thing from happening.  

Any further ideas would be greatly appreciated.


--James