How can I give eclipse more memory than 512M?

Question

I have following setup, but when I put 1024 and replace all 512 with 1024, then eclipse won\'t start at all. How can I have more than 512M memory for my eclipse JVM?

Answer 1

Care and feeding of Eclipse's memory hunger is a pain...

• http://www.eclipsezone.com/eclipse/forums/t104307.html
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=188968
• https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=238378

More or less, keep trying smaller amounts til it works, that's your max.