Tuning Eclipse Performance and Avoiding OutOfMemoryExceptions At 12:35 AM on Jan 16, 2006, Riyad Kalla wrote: Many Eclipse users have adjusted their VM heap size when launching Eclipse by way of the -vmargs -Xmx256m argument. Some have done it to avoid OutOfMemoryException s, to tweak performance or just as good preventative measure for larger installs. However, most users have never worried befor