Comment 0 for bug 897013

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David Poetzsch-Heffter (davidpoetzsch) wrote :

When I start my eclipse it crashes with the following message:

"Internal Error Occurred - Java heap space"

Then I have the options to quit or to keep on working anyway. If I choose to keep on working there will be further errors stating that eclipse is OutOfMemory.

I checked my system monitor and it says that eclipse always needs about 360mb of RAM.

I tried to increase the memory using commandline arguments (eclipse -vmargs -Xms64m -Xmx1024m) or by changing the /etc/eclipse.ini. I also tried to increase the Perm-Memory, but none of these changes has any effect on the error or the RAM usage of eclipse.

I use Ubuntu 11.10 64bit with eclipse from the repositorys. My java version is:
java version "1.6.0_23"
OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11pre) (6b23~pre11-0ubuntu1.11.10)
OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode)