Just set your jvm max heap size (-Xmx) to something larger than IDEA's default of 96M. I set mine to 256meg. But I have 1.5gig of physical ram. :)
eric > -----Original Message----- > From: Thomas Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 2:24 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [Eap-features] Garbage Collection in Idea > > > As I remember, it slows down the whole program in a > significant way. And, > last but not least, the incremental garbage collector does > not prevents > memory fragmentation (compared to the normal garbage collector). > > Tom > > > At 10:43 05.04.2002 -0500, you wrote: > >Jon Steelman wrote: > >>This bothers me too, so this morning I'm trying -Xincgc > (incremental > >>garbage collection) in idea.bat for launching IDEA. Seems > to startup > >>fine. Hopefully incgc will prevent the problem and not > introduce any > >>other issues. > >> > >>Jon > >P.S. If a number of us try this on a variety of operating > systems and it > >works without introducing undesirable side effects, then > Intellij could > >consider this for a default, but I'm not sure if all the > IDEA supported > >operating systems' JVMs support the -Xincgc option. > > > >Thanks, > >Jon > > > > > >>Mike Aizatsky wrote: > >>> > >>>Alex, > >>> > >>>As you might know, there's no way to control garbage > collector from the > >>>Java program at all. > >>> > >>>Best regards, > >>>Mike Aizatsky. > >>>> > >>>>-----Original Message----- > >>>>From: > >>>><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>eap-features-admin @intellij.com >>>>[<mailto:eap-features>mailto:eap-features- >>>><mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Alex McColgan >>>>Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 7:02 AM >>>>To: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>>>Subject: [Eap-features] Garbage Collection in Idea >>>> >>>>Request from a colleague: Is there any way to stop the (full) garbage >>>>collection process from occurring while you are in the middle of >>>>typing? It is very frustrating when you're typing along, and all of a >>>>suden everything freezes on you. You have to stop and hope what you >>>>have typed appears once the GC has finished, but as you notice the >>>>freeze, you almost i >>>>nvariably type an >>>> error so you can't just keep on >>>>typing and expect a whole paragraph of code to magically appear. >>> >>>Having >>>> >>>>the GC kick off when the keyboard has been inactive for a few seconds >>>>would be much more manageable. >>>> >>>>Alex >>> > _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features _______________________________________________ Eap-features mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-features
