Allocating more memory to Eclipse

Question

I have a lot of memory available on my computer and I was wondering if I can give my Eclipse - which I use heavily - more memory.

How much is enough? Respectively how much brings any additional effect?

I am talking about editing the eclipse.ini file:

--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms128m
-Xmx768m

Should I simply double (quadruple) all the numbers? Or just the Xms and Xmx? I don't know what is what there.

Thanks!

Answer 1

You can experiment with different values for -Xms and -Xmx start with -Xms1024m and -Xmx2048m and see if that helps.

Another thing you can try is different garbage collection strategies and a whole lot of other jvm settings. I suggest visiting this question over on Stack Overflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/142357/what-are-the-best-jvm-settings-for-eclipse

Answer 2

Doing a search on google provided lots of ways to do this.

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