Debug eclipse plugin project — PermGen space, out of memory error

Question

I have a plugin project. When i debug this as an eclipse application, in the 2nd eclipse that opens, I want to open Project explorer window. As soon as I click on the button

Answer 1

You should add the -XX:MaxPermSize=256m or 512m to the Window>Preferences>Java>Installed JREs preference page. Edit a JRE and add it to the Default VM arguments tab.

The eclipse native launcher uses the eclipse.ini to add extra permgen arguments to Oracle JVMs, but that information is not used during runtime launching.