Well, Right now, I have a couple of files open, and I am not debugging, and I have a heap size (after garbage collection) of 96 meg.
Once I start heavily using IDEA (debugging, etc), I routinely get heap sizes (after garbage collection) larger than 128 meg. Perhaps after the Intellij guys do a little memory profiling, I will reduce it, but since I have the memory to burn, I figure it doesn't hurt to use it. As long as I don't hit disk. It takes about 1/2 a second to garbage collect from 184 to 96 (which was the garbage collection I just did to get these numbers. So my performance isn't adversely affected. Most of my performance concerns right now are with file synchronization and cache build times. Mike On 4 Jun 2002 at 14:53, Alex Kireyev wrote: > Mike, > > I think you should try -Xmx128M. From my personal experience setting > mx to a very high value does not help, but in fact makes IDEA slower > sometimes. IDEA works really well with 128 meg heap on our project (ca > 5000 java files) and is quite fast with this setting: no noticable gc > pauses, gc's occur quite rarely. I suggest that you use quite the > minimal heap size w/which IDEA works. Also don't forget that -Xincgc > really slows things down. > > HTH, > Alex. > > "Michael Kirby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > That would be 128m for heap, add another 68 for the VM and > > associated overhead. Add about 60 meg for windows, and you are > > quickly at....256. > > > > Now..If you want to run mail, or a simulator, or a database, or a > > web browser at the same time, you are talking even more memory. > > > > God help you if you want to run the optimizeit profiler, and use > > IDEA to browse through the code at the same time. > > > > If you have a large project (like ours), then you run with the > > -Xmx196M setting, and all the other numbers adjust accordingly. > > > > Further I have found that if I can keep at least 128 meg free memory > > it is used by the Windows 2000 file system cache, and will > > dramatically improve the disk access speed. > > > > Mike > _______________________________________________ > Eap-bugs mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my PGP public key, mail "SEND PUB KEY" in the subject to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ Eap-bugs mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.jetbrains.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-bugs
