Hello! Thursday, January 24, 2002, 6:43:18 PM,[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: DFM> Calum Maclean wrote:
>> I think that IDEA is a great tool - far superior to Visual Caf� which I had >> to use before. >> However, I do find I have a problem with it - memory usage. >> I've upped the maximum memory from 96MB to 128MB, running on a 256MB >> machine. However, I find that, after using it for a while, it never goes >> down below 80 or 90. Even when you close your project, there's still a lot >> of memory being used. >> When it garbage collects, it quite often takes a few minutes. >> Are you planning addressing this problem? It does affect usability for both >> myself and my colleagues. DFM> I have also found that eventually it can't reclaim ANY memory and DFM> performance gets really flaky (especially if my machine is booted to DFM> Windows 98 for testing - locks up the entire OS something awful). DFM> Increasing the available memory staves off this problem for a longer DFM> period, but when it finally does fill up the memory, garbage collection DFM> is slower - it can bring the machine completely to its knees with 196 MB DFM> allocated. I had those problems some time ago until I decided to get a new computer with 1 GB RAM and an P4/1,5GHz. Now I have changed the minimum and maximum memory for IDEA to 516 MB in idea.bat and it's working great. No waiting for the gc. As RAM gets cheaper and cheaper and good processors aren't that expensive, I think the best way out of this hole is to get some new hardware. That's the price of those nice features like garbage collecting in Java. And IDEA is a great and very complicated application. So I think it's only natural that it eats more memory than a simple Java text editor or something like that. -- Best regards, Robert
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