[pdelahun]

Hi

I have eclipse v3 installed on my machine. When i install the myeclipse plug-in it seems to work ok.

However if i try to do any standard eclipse class renaming refactoring the whole eclipse environment hangs during the process and i get finally get an out of memory exception.

If i uninstall myeclipse plugin then it works fine. This leads me to believe myeclipse plugin is introducing a memory leak somewhere.

Any ideas ??????

[snpe]

set jsp validation to off (window -pref – myeclipse – validation)

[Riyad Kalla]

This depends on the Build ID of MyEclipse (Window > Prefs > MyEclipse).

If you are running 3.8.1+ then the major memory leaks were fixed, but we are still doing a heck of alot of tuning.

Also unless you specified memory arguments for Eclipse, you will likely run out of memory during a normal heavy coding session, especially if you include MyEclipse which is ~130 plugins. We would encourage you to add something like:
-vmargs -Xmx256m

to your shortcut used to start Eclipse.

[Erez]

I am facing the same out of memory problems when refactoring/renaming a method.

Erez

[Erez]

Each time I put -vmargs -Xmx256MB in the shortcut and run it, i get an error that says “could not create the java virtual machine”.
If I remove the “-vmargs” part I get it to start.

What is the -vmargs and what am I doing wrong? any ideas?

Erez

[Erez]

The shortcut link I have is
“C:\Apps\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx256MB”

Erez

[Riyad Kalla]

Erez,
the “MB” part needs to be “m”, not “MB”

[Erez]

Ok, removed the 256MB to 256M and it works,
the little things in life 🙂

Erez

[Riyad Kalla]

Glad its working.

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