How can I reduce Eclipse Ganymede's memory use?

I don't know about Eclipse specifically, I use IntelliJ which also suffers from memory growth (whether you're actively using it or not!). Anyway, in IntelliJ, I couldn't eliminate the problem, but I did slow down the memory growth by playing with the runtime VM options. You could try resetting these in Eclipse and see if they make a difference.

I don't think the JVM does a lot of garbage collection unless it has to (i.e. It's getting to its limits). Therefore it grabs all the memory it can get, probably up to the limit set in the eclipse.

Ini (the -Xmx argument, set to 512MiB here).

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