Is there any memory size limit for each and every workspace in eclipse?

[arul micheal]

Is there any memory size limit for each and every workspace in eclipse?

I am getting an alert like "Out of memory".

Can you please tell me ?

[Tim Holloway]

It's not really a workspace memory limit - it's the Eclipse application's memory limit. Eclipse is a Java app - ignoring the binary Eclipse from Red Hat, which I doubt you're using. So you can set JVM memory specifications when you start Eclipse just like you would for any other Java app.

If you get too many large-scale projects in a single workspace, you might need to break them out into multiple workspaces, since not only will you be consuming large amounts of memory, but also Eclipse will be spending a lot of time keeping them all properly managed. However, Eclipse can handle a lot, so unless you're already running more than about 2GB of VM RAM, that's probably not necessary.

[Ilja Preuss]

If you are working on windows, you can set the heap size for eclipse itself using

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx768m

(The example sets teh maximum heap size to 768 MB.)

I guess it works similar with other operating systems.

[Tim Holloway]

Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
If you are working on windows, you can set the heap size for eclipse itself using

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx768m

(The example sets teh maximum heap size to 768 MB.)

I guess it works similar with other operating systems.

It does. I was just too lazy to look it up.

[Mr. C Lamont Gilbert]

Originally posted by Ilja Preuss:
If you are working on windows, you can set the heap size for eclipse itself using

eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xmx768m

(The example sets teh maximum heap size to 768 MB.)

I guess it works similar with other operating systems.

Yes, the platform independent way is to edit eclipse.ini

Mine is like so

-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx128m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m