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occuring PermGen space error [message #870972]

Thu, 10 May 2012 12:07

vijaya a

Messages: 4
Registered: May 2012

Junior Member

Hi All,
i am using eclipse-SDK-3.6.2-win32 with jdk1.6.0_13 and added ADT plugin, now i want to add Phonegap plugin to the eclipse but its throwing below error while adding
"An internal error occurred during: "Contacting Software Sites".
PermGen space"

this is my eclipse.ini

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.1.R36x_v20101122_1400.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.2.R36x_v20101222
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-vmargs 
-Xms40m
-Xmx384m

please let me know what can be done as i have tried all the ways to solve this issue, tried with all changes given by this forum

thanks in advance

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Re: occuring PermGen space error [message #871021 is a reply to message #870972]

Thu, 10 May 2012 14:38

Michael Rennie

Messages: 67
Registered: July 2009
Location: Canada

Member

To help with the memory issues you can try allocating more memory for Eclipse to use.

Here is a wiki page that talks about it: http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_increase_the_heap_size_available_to_Eclipse%3F

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