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Bug 322524

Summary: When I create a new Dynamic web project, the system hangs and gives out of memory exceptions
Product: [Eclipse Project] Platform Reporter: Naras <narasimhanmg>
Component: IDEAssignee: Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME QA Contact:
Severity: critical    
Priority: P3 CC: remy.suen
Version: 3.6   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
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Description Naras CLA 2010-08-12 09:13:47 EDT 
Build Identifier: 20100617-1415

I created a Dynamic web project. Added one or two JSP modules. When I double-clicked on one of the JSP modules, system 1) sometimes crawls 2)sometimes hangs 3)sometimes aborts without warning 4)sometimes gives unhandled eventloop exception.

I have Windows XP with 1 GB RAM.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Launch eclipse (double-click on the eclipse.exe file/shortcut)
2. (optional)Register JBOSS 4.2 as an application server.
3.Create a new Dynamic web project. 
  3.1 Click File/New
  3.2 Select Web/Dynamic Web Project
  3.3 Give a name (like hello)
  2.4 Click Finish.
  2.5 The new project is created and appears in the list of projects panel.
3.Add a JSP module in the WebContent folder.
4.Double-click the created .JSP file to open it. 
5. System hangs, aborts or gives unhandled eventloop exception.
Comment 1 Naras CLA 2010-08-12 09:18:08 EDT 
Created attachment 176465 [details]
Please see screenshots of the exceptions

Zip file contains screenshots of the About Eclipse Dialog (With Build Id) and eclipse IDE exceptions displayed.
Comment 2 Remy Suen CLA 2010-08-12 11:42:47 EDT 
What JVM are you using?
Comment 3 Naras CLA 2010-08-13 02:02:57 EDT 
(In reply to comment #2)
> What JVM are you using?

DOS Command java -version gives following result.

Java version 1.6.0_21.
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_21-b06)
Java Hotspot(TM) Client VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode, sharing)
Comment 4 Naras CLA 2010-08-24 08:24:05 EDT 
(In reply to comment #2)
> What JVM are you using?

Any updates on this bug report?
Comment 5 Francis Upton IV CLA 2010-10-11 13:16:49 EDT 
My guess is you need to provide more memory to your JVM. Edit the eclipse.ini file and change the -Xmx value to be higher and see if the problem goes away. If not, please reopen this.