[Brad]

I am running on XP and would like to know where to add the flags (and I guess which flags) to increase the VM for eclipse when it starts up from 64 to 256.

Thanks.

I first tried to create a JAVA_OPTS environment variable but that wasn’t picked up.

Any help would be great.

–Brad

[Riyad Kalla]

Brad,
You need to edit the shortcut you use to start Eclipse and add:

-vmargs -Xmx256

to the command.

[Brad]

Sorry for my ignorance, but I’m on a windows machine and simply click on the .exe. What I tried to do was run the .exe from the command window as:

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx256 but received an Eclipse error:

JVM terminated. Exit code=13
C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe
-Xmx25
-cp C:\Eclipse\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcher.Main
-os win32
-ws win32
-arch x86
-showsplash C:\Eclipse …. 600
-exitdata C:\Exlipse …. -exitdata b3c+7c8
-vm C:\WINDOWS\system32\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Xmx256
-cp C:\Eclipse\eclipse\startup.jar org.eclipse.core.launcer.Main

I hope that this isn’t too cryptic but I’m not sure where to specify the -vmargs property.

Thanks.

[Riyad Kalla]

I’m sorry about that, its actually “256m” not just “256”, so how you run it would be:

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx256m

For example, I have a shortcut on my desktop and its “Command” used to launch Eclipse is this:

C:\Java\eclipse-3.0.1\eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xms128m -Xmx256m

[Brad]

Thanks. All working perfectly.

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