It's similar to how you do it on the PC, except the eclipse.ini file lives inside the application bundle. I haven't used a Mac in about 4 months, so I won't try to guide through the menus to look inside the application bundle from the Finder.
I think you can also specify it somehow in the app's Info.plist file? I don't remember for sure anymore. Also: If you have lots of projects open -- close ones you don't need. Like if you've created an Eclipse project for the ApiDemo -- that takes a lot of RAM. Even better, delete them (but not from disk). You can add them to a different workspace. You can even run them in separate Eclipse instances, so long as each one is looking at a different workspace. If you've got a lot of other memory-intensive stuff -- you might just be starving Eclipse for RAM, forcing it to page a lot, which can be even worse than GCing a lot. (Especially since it makes GC vastly more expensive!). I can tell you that Eclipse runs pretty well on an 8 GB, 8 core Mac Pro. But people using Macbook Pro's were also pretty happy. If I were buying a development machine at this point in time, I would go for 8 GB of RAM. I'm surviving on my 2.5-year-old Dell laptop with 4 GB, but I run and do a lot of stuff, and I spend a lot more time waiting than I'm happy with. So you might want to consider throwing in some more RAM. On Feb 23, 1:38 pm, Michael MacDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > On 02/22/10 07:55, Ferm wrote: > > It sounds like your Eclipse is running out of memory and GC'ing too > much. Make sure the Eclipse launcher is passing the right memory flags > to the java VM: -Xmx512m or more. Lots of times the default is 256m > which is really not enough. I don't know how you would set that on a > Mac, though :} -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
