Eclipse, Memory Hog

From: duffymo (duffymo_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 01/22/04 

Date: 22 Jan 2004 07:22:57 -0800

I like Eclipse very much - the features are wonderful, and the price
is terrific. I'm running version 3.0 on Windows 2000 under JDK
1.4.1_03 from Sun.

I have just one complaint: it's a total memory hog. Right now Eclipse
is gobbling up 111 RAM on my machine (I've got 256MB RAM installed).
The editor is barely functional. After every change I have to wait
for Eclipse to rebuild my workspace. It can't keep up with my typing.

I used to have the same complaint with IBM's Visual Age for Java: no
amount of RAM was enough.

I don't mean this as a slur against Eclipse. Like I said, I like the
product very much. Perhaps this is just what a typical IDE requires
these days.

Are there any leaks or corrections I should know about? Thanks - MOD

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