You can give Eclipse more memory with the -Xmx and -Xms options. However, with only 256Mb RAM you'll have trouble getting it any more - Eclipse and your OS will use almost that amount anyway. Check out how much memory Eclipse uses when running normally, and see if you can reasonably allocate it any more.
I found
this article useful to learn about Eclipse memory consumption. I also want to try
this memory-monitor plugin, but my stupid work content filter won't let me download zip files.
I have 512 RAM and running Win2k, Eclipse and Weblogic (App server) 7 almost kills the computer. Gotta love watching the hard-drive light flash when it's paging...
Cheers,
--Tim
[ June 09, 2004: Message edited by: Tim West ]