Jochen Szostek wrote:
"If your eclipse is using more than 2 GB of memory there is something very wrong. Heck, even more than 1 GB is bad."
And 640kb should be enough for anyone? :p
With all due respect, since eclipse is pluggable that statement makes no sense imho. If you use Springsource Toolsuite for Java development. Plug Aptana3 into it for HTML5+js development. Add some other smaller plugins and JBoss Tools...you will get there. Unfortunately Adobe's Flash builder is also restricted to 32 bit otherwise I could plug it in too. (still have 1 flex project running)
My comment was in context of Eclipse + JBoss Tools; just using that should never make you go that high unless you are doing something very memory heavy.
We should not accept that just installing plugins and not using them takes up large amounts of memory - that needs to be found and fixed.
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've already seen my eclipse take up 2 to 3gb at times, still running nicely. (my laptop has 16gb of ram and I notice Eclipse running smoother with higher mem settings e.g.:
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
1024M
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms320m
-Xmx6144m
-XX:MaxPermSize=2048m
For the record, I'm not saying I use all the junk I've got installed into Eclipse :D but I like to have all tools in 1 app, and the time to configure a less bloated Eclipse isn't worth it. I prefer the "live and let die" minded Eclipse config appoach.
I understand that, and for use adding extra MaxPermSize is a good way to improve eclipse general performance (but that shouldn't make us and other plugin writers sloppy thus I would like to find the leaks if they exist and remove them - that would allow you to install even more ;)
Anyway, I would also love to see a 64 bit version of JBoss Tools since it's supposed one of (or the) best for JSF2 development...and I guess I'm not the only developer who thinks this way.
You should be able to run it with 64 bit - it just won't load the visual page editor.
Is it the visual page editor you want ? Then for now it will only run with 32-bit on windows unfortunately.
Jochen