Ditto. I'm convinced the long garbage collection times are because windows has swapped out the process because it won't fit in memory. If you have a 125 megabyte heap, then you probabaly have about a 150 to 175 megabyte process. Windows itself (at least 2000 pro in a network environment) takes at least 80 megabytes, plus, if you are running any decent sized application.
Do the math, and someone is on disk. The answer is that you need at least 1/2 a gigabyte of memory to use intellij with windows 2000 and a decent sized application. Add another 256 if you want to run outlook to read your mail. Mike On 24 Jan 2002 at 12:43, Donald F. McLean wrote: > 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. > > > I have also found that eventually it can't reclaim ANY memory and > performance gets really flaky (especially if my machine is booted to > Windows 98 for testing - locks up the entire OS something awful). > > Increasing the available memory staves off this problem for a longer > period, but when it finally does fill up the memory, garbage > collection is slower - it can bring the machine completely to its > knees with 196 MB allocated. > > Donald > > > _______________________________________________ > Eap-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list > --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my PGP public key, mail "SEND PUB KEY" in the subject to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" _______________________________________________ Eap-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellij.com/mailman/listinfo/eap-list
