I have been using my eclipse instance for months and on the day of a crucial release it stopped working (May be just to prove Murphy’s law). I had several instance of eclipse (I usually have different instance for J2EE, Android, Blackberry etc) and all the instance showed me exactly the same error.
JVM terminated. Exit code=-1 -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -Djava.class.path=D:eclipseAndroideclipseplugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar -os win32 -ws win32 -arch x86 -showsplash -launcher D:eclipseAndroideclipseeclipse.exe -name Eclipse --launcher.library D:eclipseAndroideclipseplugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519eclipse_1206.dll -startup D:eclipseAndroideclipseplugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product org.eclipse.platform -vm C:Javajre6binclientjvm.dll -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Xms40m -Xmx512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512M -Djava.class.path=D:eclipseAndroideclipseplugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar
Tweaking all the memory size parameters in eclipse.ini but irrespective of whatever permutation and combination I tried it didn’t budge.
I then removed all the contents of eclipse.ini and voila! it worked perfectly but then I thought these values are there for a reason and removing everything might cause some other issue. Hence I started putting back the values one by one and figured out that removing the following 2 lines in the ini file fixed the problem.
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize 512M --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 512M
After pin pointing the problem area I added these parameters but tried with different values and after trial and error found that value 128M worked perfectly. Now the final eclipse.ini looks like the one shown below.
-startup plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.201.R35x_v20090715.jar --launcher.library plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.0.200.v20090519 -product org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product -showsplash --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 128M --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 128M org.eclipse.platform -vmargs -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 -Xms40m -Xmx512m
I am still not sure what is the root cause of this issue. May be restarting the machine and reverting back the value to 512 M might do the trick.
