Tuning Eclipse Performance and Avoiding OutOfMemor

At 12:35 AM on Jan 16, 2006, Riyad Kalla Javalobby Editors wrote:

Many Eclipse users have adjusted their VM heap size when launching Eclipse by way of the -vmargs -Xmx256m argument. Some have done it to avoid OutOfMemoryException s, to tweak performance or just as good preventative measure for larger installs. However, most users have never worried before about the size of their VM's permSpace or even had a reason to care, this article will hopefully shed some light on situations when you should care and how to weak your heap and perm settings to get some performance gains in Eclipse.
Combating OutOfMemoryExceptions

A majority of OutOfMemoryException s when using Eclipse are caused by too little heap space for your VM. In this case the old wisdom of adjusting your maximum heap space with something like -vmargs -Xmx256m is still good advice; giving your Java apps more space to run in always helps performance. However, there are situations where e