[Pete Helgren]

I had attempted to install another application that uses the eclipse version that I had originally MyEclipse into and it ultimately failed. It also did not properly uninstall or preserve the eclipse.ini file so I was wondering if there was a “standard” eclipse.ini file that MyEclipse configures during install. I’d like to cut and paste it back into the eclipse.ini file I have.

I installed MyEclipse using an eclipse install at c:/eclipse and it is running on Windows XP. I *could* re-install MyEclipse but that seems like overkill at this point.

Suggestions?

[Loyal Water]

What version of MyEclipse are you working with? Can you go to MyEclipse > Installation Summary > Installation Details and paste them here for us.

[Pete Helgren]

The difficulty was, MyEclipse wasn’t starting because of the changes to the eclipse.ini. It was starting up Rational Business Developer instead. Since I didn’t get immediate help here, I did some searching , found *some* examples and was finally able to get MyEclipse barely running but it then was crashing with out of memory errors while it was updating indexes. More searching, more trial and error and I was eventually able to get some stability back using the IBM J9 JVM which apparently doesn’t have some of the memory limits that Sun’s JVM has (at least, that seemed to be the issue).

Final eclipse.ini file, which has currently gotten back some stability is:

-framework
plugins\org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.2.R34x_v20080826-1230.jar
-vm
C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\jdk\jre\bin\javaw.exe
-vmargs
-Xquickstart
-Xms40m
-Xmx1024m
-Xmnx64m
-Xgcpolicy:gencon
-Xscmx96m
-Xnolinenumbers
-XX:MaxPermSize=128M

Don’t know how right or wrong it is but at least it works! Installation summary is:

*** Date:
Friday, February 20, 2009 6:42:18 AM MST

** System properties:
OS=WindowsXP
OS version=5.1.0
Java version=1.6.0

*** MyEclipse details:
MyEclipse Enterprise Workbench
Version: 7.0
Build id: 7.0-20081201

*** Eclipse details:
Eclipse SDK

Version: 3.4.1
Build id: M20080911-1700

Eclipse Plug-in Development Environment

Version: 3.4.1.r341_v20080731-7T7U0E9mlRIuGUYviF_VP
Build id: M20080703-0800

Eclipse Platform

Version: 3.4.1.r341_v20080731-9I96EiDElYevwz-p1bP5z-NlAaP7vtX6Utotqsu
Build id: M20080911-1700

Eclipse Java Development Tools

Version: 3.4.1.r341_v20080709-0800-7o7tEAfEF_U5qyUgrb2HAp539P97
Build id: M20080709-0800

Eclipse Project SDK

Version: 3.4.1.R34x_v20080827-7O7S78C2J40sK2o_ALcK8tLN_yZSJeg0P-3EtL4Ra90kv
Build id: M20080911-1700

Eclipse Graphical Editing Framework GEF

Version: 3.4.1.v20080806-67718083A56B4H2A3213573
Build id: 200809101400

Eclipse RCP

Version: 3.4.100.r341_v20080814-989JESIEdAciFYfkZZsBfSwQ2341
Build id: M20080703-0800

Eclipse startup command=-os
win32
-ws
win32
-arch
x86
-showsplash
-launcher
C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe
-name
Eclipse
–launcher.library
C:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.101.R34x_v20080731\eclipse_1115.dll
-startup
C:\eclipse\plugins\org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20080819.jar
-exitdata
17cc_40
-framework
plugins\org.eclipse.osgi_3.4.2.R34x_v20080826-1230.jar
-vm
C:\Program Files\IBM\SDP\jdk\jre\bin\javaw.exe

[Loyal Water]

You can leave this as the eclipse.ini file since it works fine for you. You even have the memory arguments listed in this file to optimize the performance and that should help you improve the performance of the IDE.

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