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

[Romain Dervaux <romain.dervaux@xxxxxxx>]

I had this problem once.

It was related to PermGen space.
Try those arguments : -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m


Damian Harvey a Ãcrit :
> 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.
>
> My machine has 2GB of RAM.
>
> Is there a known correlation between the two? Has anyone else 
> experienced this or similar problems with the Content Assist?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Damian.