Re: Increasing memory in Eclipse

Posted by Robert Martin-3 on Jan 18, 2006; 6:45pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Increasing-memory-in-Eclipse-tp3704026p3704027.html

I had a similar problem because on imageJ program start up, I blocked  
the changes that I tried to put into effect.  I don't know if that  
was your problem - I am only starting myself.

Robert
On Jan 13, 2006, at 11:28 PM, Christopher Coulon wrote:

> 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 can’t set the memory  
> in an
> Eclipse instance of ImageJ by Edit>Options>Memory... Because it  
> generates an
> error “ImageJ is unable to change the memory limit.”  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 can’t  
> 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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