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Eclipse RCPs go heavy on memory [message #261429]

Fri, 18 July 2008 04:23

Eclipse User

Hi!

First of all, my apologies if the subject line sounds too generalised or
contraversial. Gotta grab attention of the experts some way eh ;)

Coming to the point. We(our team) have been makin RCPs for quite some
time now. And each time ... when we launch an RCP ... we check the memory
usage through Windows (2000) task manager. memory usage is in the order of
50,000 K and upwards.

I want to know: is (or are) there ways of reducing the memory usage so
that an RCP will not be that heavy on slow machines. The example RCP we
considered was a simple XML editor with a style sheet in the background.
It shouldn't be that heavy right ?

o ya ... i am talking about systems with RAM in range of 512 to 768MB

Thanks for all yer responses!
Chetan Kumar

Re: Eclipse RCPs go heavy on memory [message #261468 is a reply to message #261429]

Fri, 18 July 2008 08:51

Eclipse User

Chetan,

To my thinking, that seems pretty small. Word is using that much and
firefox and thunderbird are using 3-5 times that much. Given you've
said little about what's running in your this RCP application (you've
got WTP's editor in there?), I doubt anyone can give much meaningful
information.

Chetan Kumar wrote:
> Hi!
>
> First of all, my apologies if the subject line sounds too generalised
> or contraversial. Gotta grab attention of the experts some way eh ;)
>
> Coming to the point. We(our team) have been makin RCPs for quite some
> time now. And each time ... when we launch an RCP ... we check the
> memory usage through Windows (2000) task manager. memory usage is in
> the order of 50,000 K and upwards.
> I want to know: is (or are) there ways of reducing the memory usage
> so that an RCP will not be that heavy on slow machines. The example
> RCP we considered was a simple XML editor with a style sheet in the
> background. It shouldn't be that heavy right ?
>
> o ya ... i am talking about systems with RAM in range of 512 to 768MB
>
> Thanks for all yer responses!
> Chetan Kumar
>

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