[NTLUG:Discuss] Eclipse - running out of RAM?

[Steve Baker]

On my newly installed SuSE 11.0 64bit box, I need to run Eclipse - so I 
had SuSE install it for me.

When I run it, the banner pops up proclaiming "eclipse Europa" - but on 
stderr I see a BUNCH of complaints about running out of memory:


    GC Warning: Repeated allocation of very large block (appr. size 
262144999):
    GC Warning: Out of Memory!  Returning NIL;
    Exception in thread "Refresh Packages" java.lang.OutOfMemoryError
        <<No stacktrace available>>

...it does this a few times for different packages - and then just sits 
there.

My computer only had 512Mbytes RAM...but after a quick trip to Fry's - I 
now have 2Gbytes of RAM - and (sadly) I'm getting the exact same results.

'top' agrees that I have 2 gigs - and says that "gij-4.3" is consuming 
77% of memory and 98% of the CPU...so I presume it's the problem.

I'm puzzled because this is an "out of the box" clean install.

I'm not experienced with Eclipse - does anyone have any clues?

  -- Steve.