[bradm]

Startup is pretty slow on a Centrino Duo with 4 gigs of memory on Windows XP. I’ve seen a couple posts about adjusting the MyEclipse shortcut to call for more memory allocation but I’m not understanding something. So two questions:

1) What is the flag I’d append if I wanted half a gig of memory reserved for MyEclipse?
2) Where do I enter this adjustment? I right click my shortcut and choose properties: is it the “Target” entry that gets adjusted? If so, add the flag inside the quotes, or out?

Thanks in advance.

[Greg]

Hello,

You can go to the directory where you install MyEclipse 7.0 (not the common directory but the software directory). There you should see a myeclipse.ini file. In this file at the bottom is the current memory settings. Try setting the one that says -Xmx512M to something like -Xmx768M

[bsavardnok]

So we can’t handle it like this via a shortcut?

C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm %java_home%\jre\bin\javaw.exe -jvmargs -Xms1024M -Xmx2048M -XX:MaxPermSize=1024M

I’ve been trying it, but it doesn’t look like the minimum memory is allocated if I check WinXP’s Task Manager.

[bsavardnok]

Adding reply notification.

[Greg]

If you are using MyEclipse 7, the executable is myeclipse.exe. If you have installed via ArchivedUpdateSite then it would still be eclipse.exe.

And yes you are correct it can take arguments in the the shortcut. However, the argument you want to use is after the -vm argument you want to use a -vmargs That is the argument that eclipse (or myeclipse.exe) wants to see. That should get you going with enough memory.

[bsavardnok]

Thanks Greg, I was using the wrong agrument.

[Greg]

Glad you got it working.

[loomax]

In myeclipse 7.0 you simply have to modify the myeclipse.ini within the MyEclipse 7.0 folder

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