[gcheak]

MyEclipse 7.5 M1
Windows XP SP3 32bit
4GB RAM

I am new to the Java platform and MyEclipse. I realize that MyEclipse is very robust compared to the standard Eclipse, so I expected a fair amount of memory usage.

Just on startup, with no project loaded, MyEclipse uses 300MB+.

Is this normal?

What is the procedure (if any) to reduce the amount of memory that MyEclipse consumes?

[Loyal Water]

You can go to Windows > Prefs > General > Capabilities > Advanced and uncheck the capabilities that you are not using. Does that help?

We’ll be doing a lot more modularization work in MyEclipse 8.0 to really allow users a lot more customization opportunities.

[gcheak]

I removed a few items in that area, however, the changes will not save between MyEclipse sessions.

I also looked at Windows > Preferences > General > Startup and Shutdown. Would adjusting plugin loading have much of an affect on memory usage of the IDE?

[Loyal Water]

What did you try turning off in the Capabilities menu that didn’t “stick” between launches?

I also looked at Windows > Preferences > General > Startup and Shutdown. Would adjusting plugin loading have much of an affect on memory usage of the IDE?

This wont make a very big difference but you can try it.

[gcheak]

I unchecked the following capabilities:
Extended Oracle Database Support
Extended SQL Server / Sybase Database Support
Javascript Debugging
Screen Capture

None of the above changes are saving.

I did uncheck all of Team Support (It’s just me after all), and this did save.

[Loyal Water]

Thank you for bringing this to our notice. I’ll file this for investigation right away.

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