There are many ways to increase the application Heap size in Eclipse.
a. Launching Eclipse by passing the heap size
b. Configuring heap size in eclipse.ini file
c. Updating vm arguments of installed jre
Launching Eclipse by passing the heap size
eclipse [normal arguments] -vmargs -Xmx512M [more VM args]
Above command launch the eclipse with heap size of 512MB.
Configuring heap size in eclipse.ini file
You can configure the heap size in ‘eclipse.ini’ file.
Here is an example.
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.100.v20150511-1540.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.300.v20150602-1417
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256M
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.7
-Xms256m
-Xmx1024m
Updating vm arguments of installed jre
Open Eclipse. Window -> Preferences
Select the installed jre and click on Edit button
Add the vm arguments and click on the button Finish.
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