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

[Chris Cox]

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?

Well.. I can say that sometimes this isn't the fault of the app,
but a Java bug.  So try with different rev levels of Java and
see if you get the problem.  Just a guess...

Java DOES have tunables with regards to heap/stack... you may
have to adjust those to startup certain memory grabbing apps.