How can I reduce Eclipse Ganymede's memory use?

Question

I use the recent Ganymede release of Eclipse, specifically the distro for Java EE and web developers. I have installed a few additional plugins (e.g. Subclipse, Spring, Find

Answer 1

Just for information,

• you can add

  -Dcom.sun.management.jmxremote

to your eclise.ini file, launch eclipse and then monitor its memory usage through 'jconsole.exe' found in your jdk installation.

C:\[jdk1.6.0_0x path]\bin\jconsole.exe

Choose 'Connection / New connection / 'eclipse' to monitor the memory used by eclipse

• always use the latest jvm to launch your eclipse (that does not prevent you to use any other jfk to compile your project within eclipse)