Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:12:40 +0100, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? Cheers Antoine The problem isn't how many megs you memory you have, is how many megs of memory you allow your jvm to use. Google for jvm tweaking, you'll find something very interesting. HTH. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
RE: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory
I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? I've been running eclipse on my gentoo system, 256mb, no problems. I think you'll notice a big difference between it and netbeans. Dave -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Qian Qiao wrote: | Hi, I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse | with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete | dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? Cheers Antoine | | The problem isn't how many megs you memory you have, is how many megs | of memory you allow your jvm to use. Google for jvm tweaking, you'll | find something very interesting. Actually, I didn't find that was the case, though it may have been down to a different setup (Debian vs. Gentoo IIRC) but my old work machine (Debian w/1Gb RAM) handled Eclipse just fine and the visual editor worked flawlessly with no noticeable slow down. However, when using the visual editor on my home machine (Gentoo w/512Mb RAM) I noticed considerable slowdown, though it was just about useable (but a pain in the arse), thankfully the normal editor wasn't too bad (but again, I noticed slowdown). In short, you'll probably notice some slowdown, but Eclipse is the best IDE I've ever used and it's worth it :) [*] Matt [*] Yes, vim still rocks my world. - -- http://www.mattsscripts.co.uk/ ~ - A great source for free CGI and stuff I have a different vision of leadership. A leadership is someone who brings people together. George W. Bush August 18, 2000 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCJN7Dms1059AAPcwRAgixAJ9713sirJKnq/orhtUoBiuIrG/kIwCeOQPP Sv2xkOPdNJbNx1O6QGw/ghA= =n3vS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory
On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 21:29:40 +, Matt Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Qian Qiao wrote: | Hi, I am wondering whether it is worth trying to install eclipse | with 256meg of RAM. I have tried netbeans and it was a complete | dog. Has anyone got any experience with this? Cheers Antoine | | The problem isn't how many megs you memory you have, is how many megs | of memory you allow your jvm to use. Google for jvm tweaking, you'll | find something very interesting. Actually, I didn't find that was the case, though it may have been down to a different setup (Debian vs. Gentoo IIRC) but my old work machine (Debian w/1Gb RAM) handled Eclipse just fine and the visual editor worked flawlessly with no noticeable slow down. However, when using the visual editor on my home machine (Gentoo w/512Mb RAM) I noticed considerable slowdown, though it was just about useable (but a pain in the arse), thankfully the normal editor wasn't too bad (but again, I noticed slowdown). In short, you'll probably notice some slowdown, but Eclipse is the best IDE I've ever used and it's worth it :) [*] The intention of my post is to tell Antoine to get the most out of his system. I agree, physical limits are limits. :) -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory
In short, you'll probably notice some slowdown, but Eclipse is the best IDE I've ever used and it's worth it :) [*] The intention of my post is to tell Antoine to get the most out of his system. I agree, physical limits are limits. :) Thanks for that - it is the garbage collector I am supposed to be tuning? Cheers Antoine -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] eclipse and memory
On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 00:14:10 +0100, Antoine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In short, you'll probably notice some slowdown, but Eclipse is the best IDE I've ever used and it's worth it :) [*] The intention of my post is to tell Antoine to get the most out of his system. I agree, physical limits are limits. :) Thanks for that - it is the garbage collector I am supposed to be tuning? Cheers Antoine And try to give the system a larger heap size by using -Xms and -Xmx. I found it quite effective on one of the systems with very limited resources. These arguments are not limited to eclipse, I believe you can also use them on netbeans. Eclipse is said to be faster as SWT is meant to be of lighter weight than AWT, however, eclipse itself is more sophisticated than netbeans. I guess you should try both out, with different jvm settings, see which works the best. HTH. -- Joe -- Money can't buy everything. Sometimes money can't even buy a gun... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
