yeah it's funny, I did a test on this and CFeclipse with about 5 templates open running XMLbuddy, subclipse and CFeclipse was only hovering at about 2,000k and about 400k VM.
I think it had been open all day too and was used pretty extensively throughout the day. On 6/26/07, Brian Kotek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 6/26/07, James Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I said that Eclipse only runs well on 2GB of ram and then everyone comes > > out of the woodwork and says "I got 2GB of RAM and it runs fine!" What > is > > the point of that post? > > > > I'm very glad for you that have 2GB of RAM (and mildly jealous), but the > > average non-brand-spanking new machine has 512MB of RAM which is simply > not > > enough to run Eclipse properly. > > > Since RAM is so cheap (2 Gb for $68), why not just get some more RAM? Not > trying to be mean, but 512 Mb an awfully limited amount. > > I also specifically said that it uses 400MB of [RAM + VM] and I get > > responses from people that clearly leave off the VM (which is extremely > > relevant). > > > > For reference, in order to see the total RAM (including VM) that an app > > uses, open Task Manager, click View, click Columns, check off "Virtual > > Memory" and sum the RAM + Virtual Memory for the total RAM used. > > > Virtual Memory is cached on disk. This is the Windows page file and it is > very common for programs to gobble up lots of it, especially if Windows > has > a lot of free space in the page file. This is totally separate from > physical > RAM and is there just to speed up usage of the program. Again, since even > the most basic modern computers have dozens or hundreds of gigs of hard > drive space, I don't see why this is an issue for you. Hell, Winamp's VM > usage (42 Mb) is more than it's RAM usage (38), and Firefox's VM usage > (206 > Mb) matches its RAM usage (240 Mb). The bottom line is that Eclipse rarely > uses more than 100-150 Mb of physical RAM. This means even a system with > as > little as 1 Gb or RAM will have no problem running CFEclipse and a local > instance of ColdFusion. > > In short, as I said in my original post, use Eclipse if you have 2GB or > more > > of RAM. Don't if you don't. > > > And I'll counter by saying this is simply untrue, and if you have even 768 > Mb or 1 Gb of RAM, CFEclipse will run just fine for you even if you are > also > running CF server locally. > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJQ Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:282183 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
