...
If
...
you
...
ever
...
need
...
to
...
increase
...
Eclipse
...
3.1's
...
startup
...
min
...
max
...
memory
...
settings
...
consider
...
modifying
...
the
...
vm
...
settings
...
in
...
the
...
file
...
eclipse.ini
...
to
...
increase
...
your
...
memory
...
heap.
...
While
...
Eclipse
...
3.1's
...
default
...
memory
...
size
...
has
...
been
...
increased
...
to
...
40M
...
minimum
...
heap
...
and
...
256M
...
maximum
...
heap,
...
it
...
may
...
not
...
be
...
sufficient
...
.
...
In
...
my
...
case,
...
my
...
JVM
...
continually
...
crashed
...
when
...
loading
...
up
...
Sakai
...
projects--the
...
result
...
perhaps
...
of
...
extending
...
the
...
Eclipse
...
IDE
...
to
...
use
...
MyEclipse
...
4.0
...
M2
...
(although
...
my
...
JVM
...
continued
...
to
...
implode
...
even
...
after
...
deactivating
...
a
...
gaggle
...
of
...
MyEclipse
...
Genuitec
...
plugins
...
normally
...
activated
...
on
...
startup).
...
Changing
...
my
...
startup
...
min
...
max
...
memory
...
settings
...
appears
...
to
...
have
...
righted
...
the
...
good
...
ship
...
Eclipse
...
so
...
I
...
thought
...
I
...
would
...
share
...
my
...
experience.
...
To
...
change
...
Eclipse's
...
default
...
min
...
and
...
max
...
memory
...
size
...
settings,
...
edit
...
the
...
file
...
eclipse.ini.
...
Editing
...
this
...
file
...
represents
...
a
...
change
...
from
...
earlier
...
versions
...
of
...
Eclipse,
...
where
...
startup
...
settings
...
were
...
stored
...
in
...
Info.plist
...
.
...
Indeed,
...
Info.plist
...
includes
...
the
...
warning
...
note:
...
| No Format |
|---|
<!-- WARNING:
If you try to add a single VM argument (-vmargs) here,
*all* vmargs specified in eclipse.ini will be ignored.
We recommend to add all arguments in eclipse.ini
-->
{noformat}
|
Finding
...
eclipse.ini
...
is
...
a
...
wee
...
bit
...
tricky.
...
To
...
locate
...
it,
...
right-click
...
on
...
the
...
Eclipse
...
Application
...
icon
...
and
...
select
...
"Show
...
Package
...
Contents",
...
then
...
double-click
...
on
...
the
...
"Contents"
...
folder
...
and
...
then
...
double-click
...
on
...
the
...
"MacOS"
...
folder,
...
the
...
home
...
of
...
eclipse.ini.
...
You
...
can
...
then
...
edit
...
the
...
settings
...
as
...
I
...
did
...
below
...
setting
...
the
...
min
...
and
...
max
...
memory
...
settings
...
according
...
to
...
your
...
evaluation
...
of
...
what
...
your
...
system
...
requires.
...
You
...
can
...
also
...
startup
...
eclipse
...
from
...
the
...
command
...
line
...
with
...
appended
...
-vmargs
...
arguments
...
but
...
I'll
...
leave
...
it
...
to
...
others
...
to
...
outline
...
that
...
procedure.
...
My
...
IDE:
...
Eclipse
...
SDK
...
Version:
...
3.1.0
...
Build
...
id:
...
I20050627-1435
...
MyEclipse
...
4.0
...
M2
...
Build
...
id:
...
20050627-4.0-Milestone-2
...
eclipse.ini
...
location:
...
eclipse/Eclipse.app/Contents/MacOS/eclipse.ini
...
My
...
changes
...
(for
...
the
...
moment):
...
| No Format |
|---|
-vmargs
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Xbootclasspath/p:../../../plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.debug_3.1.0/jdi.jar
-Xms256m
-Xmx512m
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.noFocusRing
{noformat}
|
Default
...
settings
| No Format |
|---|
-vmargs
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Xbootclasspath/p:../../../plugins/org.eclipse.jdt.debug_3.1.0/jdi.jar
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.noFocusRing
{noformat} |