Yes, I would really recommend this for everyone using Eclipse now.
This is rumored to be an Eclipse 3.2 bug, actually, that Eclipse
loads so many classes that permgen space is near full when it
starts. After adding additional plugins, some of which do dynamic
class loading (Entity Modeler, for instance), it puts it over the
top. Permgen space is the area in VM memory where class files, etc
load in -- it's separate from your heap. There is actually a comment
in the readme for eclipse that talks about adding the -
XX:MaxPermSize=xxx as well. I can track down the bug in the Eclipse
bugzilla if you're interested in more info. I have it around here
somewhere.
On Nov 8, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Bill Michell wrote:
> Those settings may not help with the Permanent Generation.
>
> I explicitly use -XX:MaxPermSize=128m on sun java 5.
>
>
> --
> Bill Michell
> Development Team Leader, Broadcast Platforms, BBC News Interactive.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Ulrich Köster [mailto:ulric..bjectstyle.org]
>> Sent: 08 November 2006 13:04
>> To: woproject-de..bjectstyle.org
>> Subject: Re: Out of memory exceptions
>>
>> increase the xms and xmx size.
>>
>> Uli
>> Am 08.11.2006 um 14:01 schrieb Pierre Frisch:
>>
>>> Am I the only seeing those exceptions?
>>>
>>> I have a plain vanilla eclipse installation with WOLips (3484),
>>> subclispe (1.1.8) and only the required extensions. I reinstalled
>>> it recently because I had OutOfMemeory exception in the maven code
>>> but now this occurs regardless.
>>>
>>> Any idea?
>>>
>>> Pierre
>>>
>>> !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 4 2006-11-08 04:48:34.340
>>> !MESSAGE Unhandled event loop exception
>>>
>>> !ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 0 2006-11-08 04:48:34.351
>>> !MESSAGE PermGen space
>>> !STACK 0
>>> java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space
>>>
>
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