Max value of Xmx and Xms in Eclipse?

java eclipse jvm memory-management application-settings
Lieven Cardoen picture Lieven Cardoen · Nov 29, 2010 · Viewed 145.6k times · Source

Now my settings for these in the ini file are:

-Xms768M -Xmx1024M

When setting them higher, eclipse doesn't start anymore... Is there a way to increase these values without eclipse crashing?

Answer

Guillaume picture Guillaume · Nov 29, 2010

The maximum values do not depend on Eclipse, it depends on your OS (and obviously on the physical memory available).

You may want to take a look at this question: Max amount of memory per java process in Windows?

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