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I use Eclipse Kepler SR2 on Ubuntu 14.04 and the following is my eclipse.ini 

-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20130327-1440.jar
--launcher.library
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1.200.v20140116-2212
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
3072m
--launcher.defaultAction
openFile
--launcher.appendVmargs
-vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/DevTools/xulrunner -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.Defau$
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6
-XX:MaxPermSize=3072m
-Xms2048m
-Xmx3072m

But in eclipse the heap size shows the following:

397 of 453M

And if I mouse over on the Heap size info it shows:

Heap size: 397M of total: 453M max: 455M mark: 397M

I am expecting the max value should be close to 3072M since that is what being set in eclipse.ini

Any insight is appreciated.

Andi Setiyadi
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    Did you solve it ? I am having similar problem. My eclipse based ide, does not reflect an increase in heapsize, no matter how much i increase it in the eclipse.ini – Vishwas Jul 22 '15 at 16:17
  • I ended up uninstalling Eclipse Kepler and installed Luna. – Andi Setiyadi Jul 22 '15 at 16:51
  • Why did you assign a `-XX:MaxPermSize=3072m`? You shouldn't usually don't need it to be *that* big. Check out [What is 'PermSize' in Java?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1634216/). – Markus Mitterauer Aug 30 '16 at 08:20
  • @AndiSetiyadi were you able to resolve the issue, i.e. being able to set the heap size according to need, with the Luna installation? – smn.tino Jul 24 '19 at 14:25

2 Answers2

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Each entry in the eclipse.ini must be on a separate line, your line:

-vmargs -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/DevTools/xulrunner -Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.Defau$

will not be recognized as the start of the VMargs. It should be:

-vmargs
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.browser.XULRunnerPath=/DevTools/xulrunner
... more args on separate lines ...
greg-449
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  • I tried your suggestion, but it has no effect. I ended up uninstalling the Kepler and install Luna. Under Luna, everything works as expected. – Andi Setiyadi Jan 30 '15 at 23:27
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I think manual installations cause such problems as my eclipse ignores eclipse.ini completely when run via the launcher in Ubuntu (14.04) (used lock to launcher). So the workaround for me is to run it any other way. Desktop icon works too. Property Path must be set within that file.

tomasb
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