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Bug 366830

Summary:	Persistent "Java heap space" error from Project Explorer
Product:	[Eclipse Project] Platform	Reporter:	Andrew Overholt <overholt>
Component:	UI	Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox <Platform-UI-Inbox>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	daniel_megert, loskutov, mober.at+eclipse, remy.suen
Version:	4.2
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:

Description Andrew Overholt

2011-12-15 11:42:12 EST

Build id: 20111215-0110
EPP package:  http://build.eclipse.org/technology/epp/epp_build/juno/download/20111215-0115/20111215-0115_eclipse-linuxtools-juno-M4-linux.gtk.x86_64.tar.gz

Fedora 16, x86_64

I've been testing the above EPP package.  After some usage, I tried the Linux Tools GProf plugin which opens a view for .gmon files.  After attempting to open this view, I got an error dialogue regarding "Java heap space" from the Project Explorer.

I then changed eclipse.ini to include these lines (among others);

--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
512m
-vmargs
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m

When I re-launched Eclipse, the error came back immediately.  It seems after clearing it and declining to shut down the workbench, I can continue usage without problems.

!ENTRY org.eclipse.ui 4 4 2011-12-15 11:32:06.371
!MESSAGE An internal error has occurred.
!STACK 0
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space
        at org.eclipse.ui.part.ResourceTransfer.nativeToJava(ResourceTransfer.java:162)
        at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard.getContents(Clipboard.java:323)
        at org.eclipse.swt.dnd.Clipboard.getContents(Clipboard.java:241)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.PasteAction$1.run(PasteAction.java:191)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.syncExec(Synchronizer.java:180)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.UISynchronizer.syncExec(UISynchronizer.java:150)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.syncExec(Display.java:4331)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.PasteAction.updateSelection(PasteAction.java:186)
        at org.eclipse.ui.actions.BaseSelectionListenerAction.selectionChanged(BaseSelectionListenerAction.java:124)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.EditActionGroup.updateActionBars(EditActionGroup.java:148)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.EditActionGroup.fillActionBars(EditActionGroup.java:96)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.navigator.resources.actions.EditActionProvider.fillActionBars(EditActionProvider.java:46)
        at org.eclipse.ui.navigator.NavigatorActionService$3.run(NavigatorActionService.java:259)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
        at org.eclipse.ui.navigator.NavigatorActionService.fillActionBars(NavigatorActionService.java:253)
        at org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonNavigatorManager$2.run(CommonNavigatorManager.java:92)
        at org.eclipse.core.runtime.SafeRunner.run(SafeRunner.java:42)
        at org.eclipse.ui.navigator.CommonNavigatorManager$UpdateActionBarsJob.runInUIThread(CommonNavigatorManager.java:87)
        at org.eclipse.ui.progress.UIJob$1.run(UIJob.java:95)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.RunnableLock.run(RunnableLock.java:35)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Synchronizer.runAsyncMessages(Synchronizer.java:135)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.runAsyncMessages(Display.java:3563)
        at org.eclipse.swt.widgets.Display.readAndDispatch(Display.java:3212)
        at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine$9.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:977)
        at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
        at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.swt.PartRenderingEngine.run(PartRenderingEngine.java:893)
        at org.eclipse.e4.ui.internal.workbench.E4Workbench.createAndRunUI(E4Workbench.java:91)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench$3.run(Workbench.java:565)
        at org.eclipse.core.databinding.observable.Realm.runWithDefault(Realm.java:332)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.Workbench.createAndRunWorkbench(Workbench.java:520)
        at org.eclipse.ui.PlatformUI.createAndRunWorkbench(PlatformUI.java:149)
        at org.eclipse.ui.internal.ide.application.IDEApplication.start(IDEApplication.java:124)

Comment 1 Remy Suen

2011-12-19 09:23:57 EST

I guess this makes Eclipse and/or the GProf plug-in unusable, correct?

Comment 2 Andrew Overholt

2011-12-19 11:47:03 EST

(In reply to comment #1)
> I guess this makes Eclipse and/or the GProf plug-in unusable, correct?

Yes, but like I said, if I clear it and decline to restart, it seems to be usable.

Comment 3 Martin Oberhuber

2013-11-11 07:17:57 EST

This looks very much like a duplicate of
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=205678

Comment 4 Dani Megert

2013-11-11 11:03:47 EST

(In reply to Andrew Overholt from comment #0)
> I then changed eclipse.ini to include these lines (among others);
> 
> --launcher.XXMaxPermSize
> 512m
> -vmargs
> -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
> -Xms256m
> -Xmx1024m


Can you try with these:

--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
512m
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m

Comment 5 Andrew Overholt

2014-06-09 10:53:45 EDT

(In reply to Dani Megert from comment #4)
> (In reply to Andrew Overholt from comment #0)
> > I then changed eclipse.ini to include these lines (among others);
> > 
> > --launcher.XXMaxPermSize
> > 512m
> > -vmargs
> > -XX:MaxPermSize=512m
> > -Xms256m
> > -Xmx1024m
> 
> 
> Can you try with these:
> 
> --launcher.XXMaxPermSize
> 512m
> --launcher.appendVmargs
> -vmargs
> -Xms256m
> -Xmx1024m

I haven't experienced this recently so let's just close it.

Comment 6 Andrey Loskutov

2015-10-02 07:49:36 EDT

This is a dup of bug 205678, fixed in 4.5.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 205678 ***