On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 10:11 +0200, hjvm@freenet.de wrote: > Hi! > > I'm using KDE, six virtual desktops and a two-head setup with two > screens of 1280x1024 resolution. When my machine is started top > shows that X takes about 40 MB of memory. That seems normal to > me. But when I start Eclipse X eats 280 MB of memory. Is this normal? > Together with some other applications my 512 MB of RAM are full and > it uses 890 MB of Swap! > I'd rather like not to buy another 512 MB RAM just for Eclipse... Is there > a chance to reduce the memory consumption? Are others experiencing > similar effects? When the java-vm starts up (such as when you launch Eclipse) it allocates a good chunk of memory for itself. It doesn't USE it all, but it does allocate it which is why you see it showing up in top. If you use Eclipse a lot, I would recommend starting Eclipse with AT LEAST 256 MB allocated to it (using the -Xmx256M flag) for best performance. This also means that you should upgrade to a total of 768 MB of RAM or more. With how cheap RAM is nowadays though, I'd say just throw another 512 MB in there and be done with it. -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net keyservers. Key ID: A6D24837
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