I’m a great fan of Eclipse, but those versions in Ubuntu didn’t really work stable. In the last week I needed Eclipse for Java development, which I couldn’t anymore per CLI since it relied on Eclipse Project files. I downloaded the new published Eclipse Europa 3.3 and hoped that it will work better than the Eclipser 3.2.x-versions. It did not really, but instead of becoming some 32bit<->64bit conversion problems, I became after about 30 minutes a “java.lang.OutOfMemory: PermGen Space”-error. I was told to increase -Xmx to bigger value, I turned it to 2048m which should have been enough, but the error came again, after the same time. A bit of searchin in the net and I found out that there a 2 different type of memory-spaces in Java and that I have to increase -XX:MaxPermSize too, with a value of 2048m Eclipse is now working without problems

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