Eclipse memory settings when getting “Java Heap Space” and “Out of Memory”

Question

When trying to launch and run a flex/java project in eclipse I kept getting a \"Out of Memory Exception\" and \"Java Heap Space\" using Eclipse, Tomcat and a JRE.

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Answer 1

I have these settings:

-vmargs
...
-Duser.name=...
-XX:PermSize=256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xmn128m
-Xms256m
-Xmx768m

Eclipse randomly crashed before I set the PermSize equal to MaxPermSize.