Eclipse running out of memory, or..?

[Frode Petersen]

Charles Tuckey skrev:
> On 2/22/07, *Frode Petersen* <fropeter at online.no 
> <mailto:fropeter at online.no>> wrote:
> 
>     I have a problem that I've tried to figure out, but without much
>     progress.
> 
>     I run Fedora Eclipse with an UML plugin. Very often Eclipse seems to be
>     stuck in some sort of loop where the java VM is using appr. 50% CPU
>     (dual core = 100% of one core?). The result is that Eclipse shuts down
>     after a few minutes. (This happens with ArgoEclipse and Omondo
>     EclipseUML Community Edition)
> 
> 
> This sounds to me like a bug in the Eclipse distribution you are using 
> or a bug in the UML plugin. You would have better luck asking this 
> question in a forum for the Eclipse distriubtion or plugin. This mail 
> list is for the Fedora Linux distribution. Your problem is definitely 
> not caused by Fedora.
> 
>     I have found some advice suggesting I should try to increase the VM's
>     memory, but they use flags with the java... command used to run the
>     normal Eclipse. I have not figured out how to do this with Fedora
>     Eclipse.
> 
> 
> I start Eclipse using a shell script where I set up the environment 
> variables and vm arguments before calling the Eclipse executable.
> 
> charlie
> 

Thank you for the answer!

You might be right in the cause for the behaviour, and if I used the 
pure Eclipse.org version of Eclipse, I would have placed the question 
there.

But I am using the Fedora version of Eclipse, which is a precompiled 
version using the java stack included with Fedora, and since it is 
precompiled, I don't have access directly to the java VM used, thus I 
can't use a startup script as you suggested. Because of this there 
should be some means by which I could configure the memory usage and 
possibly other things regarding that VM. I have not  as yet found any 
conclusive info on where that configuration is done in the Fedora 
version of Eclipse. Or am I completely confused here?

If I find that this is not a memory related issue, then I will go the 
road you outlined, but right now I would be greatful for this information.

Frode