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

[steve at sjbaker.org]

> Steve Baker wrote:
>> 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?
>>
>
> Eclipse, while a cool, flexible ide, is way bloated.
>
> Maybe this will help, but I doubt it.
> http://blog.xam.dk/archives/79-Eclipse-The-Memory-Hog-resolved!.html

Wow! That sucks. I've been thinking about porting some games and such to the
Google "Android" phone platform - I grabbed their SDK but it comes with a
bunch of requirements - one of which is to use Eclipse.

I can understand why they might have a bug in their .ini file parser - but
this is a simple default install - you'd think the default .ini would
parse OK!

Well, thanks very much - I guess I'd better make myself a .ini

  --Steve