How can I give eclipse more memory than 512M?

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I’ve had a lot of problems trying to get Eclipse to accept as much memory as I’d like it to be able to use (between 2 and 4 gigs for example).

Open eclipse.ini in the Eclipse installation directory.
You should be able to change the memory sizes after -vmargs up to 1024 without a problem up to some maximum value that’s dependent on your system. Here’s that section on my Linux box:

-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Xms512m
-Xmx1024m

And here’s that section on my Windows box:

-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m

But, I’ve failed at setting it higher than 1024 megs. If anybody knows how to make that work, I’d love to know.

EDIT: 32bit version of juno seems to not accept more than Xmx1024m where the 64 bit version accept 2048.

EDIT: Nick’s post contains some great links that explain two different things:

  • The problem is largely dependent on your system and the amount of contiguous free memory available, and
  • By using javaw.exe (on Windows), you may be able to get a larger allocated block of memory.

I have 8 gigs of Ram and can’t set -Xmx to more than 1024 megs of ram, even when a minimal amount of programs are loaded and both windows/linux report between 4 and 5 gigs of free ram.

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