[NTLUG:Discuss] Eclipse - running out of RAM?

[MadHat Unspecific]

steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>> Steve Baker wrote:
>>> On my newly installed SuSE 11.0 64bit box, I need to run Eclipse - so I
>>> had SuSE install it for me.
>>>
>>> When I run it, the banner pops up proclaiming "eclipse Europa" - but on
>>> stderr I see a BUNCH of complaints about running out of memory:
>>>
>>>
>>>     GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size
>>> 262144999):
>>>     GC Warning: Out of Memory!  Returning NIL;
>>>     Exception in thread "Refresh Packages" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
>>>         <<No stacktrace available>>
>>>
>>> ...it does this a few times for different packages - and then just sits
>>> there.
>>>
>>> My computer only had 512Mbytes RAM...but after a quick trip to Fry's - I
>>> now have 2Gbytes of RAM - and (sadly) I'm getting the exact same
>>> results.
>>>
>>> 'top' agrees that I have 2 gigs - and says that "gij-4.3" is consuming
>>> 77% of memory and 98% of the CPU...so I presume it's the problem.
>>>
>>> I'm puzzled because this is an "out of the box" clean install.
>>>
>>> I'm not experienced with Eclipse - does anyone have any clues?
>>>
>> Eclipse, while a cool, flexible ide, is way bloated.
>>
>> Maybe this will help, but I doubt it.
>> http://blog.xam.dk/archives/79-Eclipse-The-Memory-Hog-resolved!.html
> 
> Wow! That sucks. I've been thinking about porting some games and such to the
> Google "Android" phone platform - I grabbed their SDK but it comes with a
> bunch of requirements - one of which is to use Eclipse.
> 
> I can understand why they might have a bug in their .ini file parser - but
> this is a simple default install - you'd think the default .ini would
> parse OK!
> 
> Well, thanks very much - I guess I'd better make myself a .ini

Several people are using eclipse.   Adobe is using it for their Air and 
Flex development.  Zend uses it for their PHP IDE.  I think IBM is 
pushing it as well.  It is very popular as it has a lot of features and 
can be expanded easily, plus being java it is cross platform.  But Java 
is also the reason it has memory and speed issues at times.  It is easy 
to mess java up, even for experienced programmers.  I don't think the 
default eclipse should give problems, but if you installed it via a 
package manager it will install some specific modules (or whatever they 
are called, plugins, whatever) and that is where some problems arise.

Good luck.

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