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Tuesday, August 3, 2010

Eclipse Fix for JDK 1.6.0_21

If you are running one of the following Eclipse versions and have upgraded your JVM to the latest release; JDK 1.6.0_21. There is a good chance every 5 minutes you are going to experience an OutOfMemoryError and then have Eclipse crash every. The fix is simple.

Name Release Date Version Project Home
Helios 23-JUN-2010 3.6 Helios projects
Galileo 24-JUN-2009 3.5 Galileo projects
Ganymede 25-JUN-2008 3.4 Ganymede projects


Open the file ${Eclipse Home}/eclipse.ini



Add this value "-XX:MaxPermSize=256m" after the "-vmargs" line



Restart Eclipse
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