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Eclipse and memory increasing

 
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Hi,

I'm working with Eclipse 3.0.1 for 3 months and i realize that there is something wrong with it.
My memory is increasing and it seems to be a bug.
I have 512MB of RAM and after starting eclipse, my memory goes to 440MB, after that it don't stop growing. (I've reached 627MB of memory showed by windows taskmanager)
Does anybody knows anything that i can do to stop it?

Thanks,

Marcos

Eclipse 3.0.1
Java SDK 1.4.1_04
JBOSS 3.0.4
512 RAM
athlon xp 2600+
 
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maybe try -vmargs -Xmx512M as command line arguments. That sets the max heap size, not sure if it will help.
 
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There's also a plug-in called KeepResident (windows-only) that seems to keep the memory size in check. I just started using KeepResident plugin about a week ago and it seems to be keeping my memory size fairly reasonable. I have Eclipse 3.1M6 running for 3 days now and it's still only using about 70M of memory, back then it'll grow up to about 160MB if I keep Eclipse up and running for a day. Give it a try.
 
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