[fedora-java] default vm memory settings for fedora eclipse

[Joshua Sumali]

Andrew Overholt wrote:
> * Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2007-10-05 09:01]:
>   
>> Andrew Overholt writes:
>>  > * Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> [2007-10-05 08:47]:
>>  > > So, why don't I just patch IcedTea to use your values as defaults?
>>  > 
>>  > That would be awesome.  I think Tom Fitzsimmons might actually have some
>>  > better values, but anything higher would rock.
>>
>> Alright, so I need to do the experiment:
>>
>> Duplicate the failures -- you must tell me exactly what to do.
>>
>> Rebuild with new values.
>>
>> Confirm that the failures no longer happen.
>>     
>
> It may be easier for me to do this.  Josh Sumali can help as well as he
> can now reliably crash Eclipse within a few minutes.  It's difficult to
> reproduce with a simple "run these steps" and even with a large
> workspace, I find it happens erratically.
>
> When was the last time I told you something was wrong and it was easy to
> reproduce?  :)
>
> Andrew
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There's no real set list of things to do, but what I find works best is 
doing many *different* things (as to load classes into perm gen space). 
This typically involves doing things like:

-cvs update, cvs diffing
-Source > Format , Source > Clean Up
-Right click on a project, enable maven, play around with the maven settings
-Running programs differently (Right click > run as > java applet, or 
java application, OSGI, etc)
-Debugging programs differently
-Looking at eclipse help (Help Contents, Dynamic Help, etc)

Using more plugins would probably be easier in terms of crashing 
Eclipse, but I can do so with just Maven and Mylyn on Eclipse as plugins 
(and a 64mb permgen limit).

Josh