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

[Leroy Tennison]

steve at sjbaker.org wrote:
>> 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
> 
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WOW, this really redefines bloatware.  Back in the "good old mainframe
days" a hog took 1 MB (that's right, 1 megabyte) of RAM.