[Brandon Rife]

When attempting to run Eclipse 3.1M4 with MyEclipse (installed from EnterpriseWorkbenchInstaller_030804_3.1Beta.exe) on XP the VM terminates abnormatlly during Eclipse startup. I’ve tried with both Sun’s 1.4 and 1.5 VM. The following is the last entry in the Eclipse log:

!ENTRY org.eclipse.osgi 2005-01-28 14:37:44.825
!MESSAGE An unexpected runtime error has occurred. The application will terminate.
!STACK 0
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Requested array size exceeds VM limit

Note that Eclipse itself runs fine when I remove the .link file. The log file itself is 208K of exceptions recorded during startup that I’d be glad to send you.

[Riyad Kalla]

brife,
I’m not too surprised, the default VM size is barely enough for Eclipse 3.x let alone MyEclipse which consists of almost another 130 plugins just by itself. We suggest the setting of:
-vmargs -Xms128m -Xmx256m

for optimal performance. I think 128/128 works fine too.

[Brandon Rife]

Thanks, the -vmargs parameters solved the problem. This is the first Eclipse/MyEclipse combo that I’ve had to up the default VM params for…:/

[Riyad Kalla]

This is the first Eclipse/MyEclipse combo that I’ve had to up the default VM params for…:/

<nod> It does seem like an excessive amount of memory, but MyEclipse is far from small… it is almost like an IDE running ontop of another IDE. Atleast we hope you find it worth the extra memory 😉

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