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Why my IDE eclipse is consuming too much memory? Even though I followed some optimizations posted here

The big problem is the JVM don't give back memory to O.S, even that i use G1 GC.

The Java process is consuming about 2GB memory, but the committed memory of JVM is much smaller. This kind of behavior is only perceived after a long period running the IDE. Memory consumption is always increasing while using Eclipse, why does this happen?

High memory footprint

Renato Barros
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  • Which JDK version? The memory model is different for JDK 8 and newer. You might want to read this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30458195/does-gc-release-back-memory-to-os – duffymo Jul 25 '17 at 17:30
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    Possible duplicate of [Does GC release back memory to OS?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30458195/does-gc-release-back-memory-to-os) – duffymo Jul 25 '17 at 17:30
  • Using OpenJDK version 1.8.0_131 – Renato Barros Jul 26 '17 at 14:29
  • Does this answer your question? [How to reduce Eclipse's memory usage?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1490803/how-to-reduce-eclipses-memory-usage) – Vijay Rajpurohit Jun 19 '20 at 13:34

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