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Max heap 512m [message #1067677]

Wed, 10 July 2013 04:05

Clay Codner

Messages: 6
Registered: July 2013

Junior Member

I am trying to compile a program with a large header file, and so I tried to change the values in the eclipse.ini file. It will allow me to change all of the values except for the max heap size. That is stuck at 512 MB. If I make it any bigger, eclipse fails to start with "Failed to start the Java VM".Does anybody know a fix for this?

Thanks.

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Re: Max heap 512m [message #1067944 is a reply to message #1067677]

Thu, 11 July 2013 11:26

Axel Mueller

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Registered: July 2009

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What did you exactly change in the eclipse.ini file? In principle, you should replace the line "-Xmx384m" with "-Xmx1024m".

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Re: Max heap 512m [message #1067949 is a reply to message #1067944]

Thu, 11 July 2013 11:56

Clay Codner

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Registered: July 2013

Junior Member

I only changed the numbers. Everything else is "out of the box". The settings shown below cause the error. If I change it back to -Xmx512m it works fine.

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.200.v20130521-0416
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.cpp.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
1024M
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
1024m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m

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