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Increasing memory in Eclipse

Posted by Christopher Coulon on Jan 14, 2006; 4:28am
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Increasing-memory-in-Eclipse-tp3704026.html

Dear list,

I hope this is not too off-topic, but I am developing ImageJ plugins using
Eclipse, and I really like it except I keep running up against what appears
to be an absolute memory limit of 63MB.  You can¹t set the memory in an
Eclipse instance of ImageJ by Edit>Options>Memory... Because it generates an
error ³ImageJ is unable to change the memory limit.²  However the Current
limit it gives is 144MB ‹ well beyond the 63MB Out of Memory Eclipse error.
I tried changing the eclipse.ini file from the default:

-Xms40m
-Xmx256m

to

-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
 
but I still get the Out of Memory ‹ All available memory (63MB) has been
used.  I have been struggling with this for a long time but can¹t seem to
find any help in the Eclipse Help or Help lists ‹ they seem reluctant to
deal with ImageJ issues for some reason.  I am using a Mac G5 dual 2.3GHz
with 2GB ram.  If anyone knows how to increase the memory in Eclipse, I
would be very grateful.  Thanks in advance.

Chris Coulon
       

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