22026 – [Exception Handling] Eclipse could provide hint when OutOfMemory occurs

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Bug 22026 - [Exception Handling] Eclipse could provide hint when OutOfMemory occurs

Summary: [Exception Handling] Eclipse could provide hint when OutOfMemory occurs

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 33972

Alias:	None

Product:	Platform
Classification:	Eclipse Project
Component:	UI (show other bugs)
Version:	2.0
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P4 enhancement (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	Platform-UI-Inbox
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Reported:	2002-07-29 19:37 EDT by Peter Burka
Modified:	2004-04-16 14:20 EDT (History)
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Description Peter Burka

2002-07-29 19:37:07 EDT

A fairly common FAQ on the newsgroup is: 'Why am I getting OutOfMemoryErrors 
from Eclipse? I have 2GB of RAM on my machine!'

The problem, of course, is that the VM has a fixed memory limit. The fix is to 
specify -vmargs -Xmx400m, or something, on the eclipse.exe command line.

It might help if Eclipse displayed a more descriptive error message when an 
OutOfMemoryError occurs, suggesting that the user add this option to the 
command line.

Comment 1 Carolyn MacLeod

2003-12-02 13:19:56 EST

I believe that this bug could be marked as a duplicate of 33972 (that seems to 
be the common collecting ground for "need to handle OutOfMemory errors better" 
bug reports.

Comment 2 Nick Edgar

2004-04-16 14:20:06 EDT


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 33972 ***