did you set the maxpermsize ?

and you get outofmemory as soon as you start ?

weird because I run with about the same settings and don't have a problem.

Are you 100% sure that the settings are actually taking effect ?

The same problem occurs with me and with a lot of guys of my work. We are running on Windows (2000 and XP) with 1GB RAM and JDK 1.5. Sometimes a Out of memory message shows and other times the eclipse just crash with no message.

damn - I can only get there if i start doing huge hql queries or something that I know eats memory.

Are you also running with the permsize set ?

I guess i'll need to investigate this some more...would be great with some reproduciable setup.

My configurations in eclipse.ini file are:
eclipse -clean -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

The problem appears at most when I start the Jboss in the Server View or when I open a XHTML file (even a very small one) in the Exadel HTML Editor.

I´m using eclipse 3.2.2 and WTP 1.5.4.

what platform?

Windows 2000 SP4

What is the project size? Did you migrates recently from older Eclipse? What was actually consumed before you have out of memory? Can you try to load Eclipse under remote management like I explain there http://blog.exadel.com/?p=9
and see memory graph? 512M for some projects may be really insufficient.

It is a really small project. It has only 10 Java classes, 3 XHTML files and some configuration files. The other projects from my workspace are all closed, except for one that is also small.
I will try the remote management as described.

thank you!

"fabricio.lemos" wrote:
My configurations in eclipse.ini file are:
eclipse -clean -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m

The problem appears at most when I start the Jboss in the Server View or when I open a XHTML file (even a very small one) in the Exadel HTML Editor.

I´m using eclipse 3.2.2 and WTP 1.5.4.

-vmargs
-XX:MaxPermSize=256M
-Xmx512M

Inspired by this and similar threads:

http://blog.xam.dk/archives/68-Eclipse-and-memory-settings.html