Eclipse ADT Plugin - Graphical Layout tool lagging and eating memory

Question

Win7 64, 12GB RAM, i7 ADT v.16.01

My graphical layout tool acting very strange. Everytime I make a single change, the tool buttons above the layout display flicker and it 'works' for about 10 seconds until it finally completes the change.. in this process, javaw.exe consumes about 800mb of RAM for every action I take on the tool.. I've gotten up to 8GB of ram being used by javaw at one point..

I've tried so many combinations of eclipse and java jre's. I've tried jre 6u21, 6u30, 7u2, all in 32/64 bit versions. Even tried eclipse indigo and developer version of Juno in both 32/64bit versions.. all do the same thing..

I had this happen before and after a new install it went away. All the sudden it started doing it again today and I have no idea why.

Anyone else come across this?

Was playing with it more and once got an error: 'programmer.xml: GC overhead limit exceeded'

Answer 1

Try allocating more memory to Eclipse, if you haven't done so already. In your eclipse folder, edit eclipse.ini and bump the values for Xms and Xmx. I'm using:

-Xms1024m
-Xmx2048m