Thursday, July 29, 2010

Eclipse Heap Size

Eclipse (3.5 in my case) doesn't read the default "ini" file if the Eclipse executable name is changed. This usually happens when you have several versions of Eclipse installed on the same machine.

Ini file includes the configuration settings such as Java vm stuff, heap size and plugin configurations. The default file is named "eclipse.ini" and it must be renamed to the changed eclipse executable name:
eclipse3_5.exe <==> eclipse3_5.ini