PermGen Error Eclipse 3.5.2 jdk 1.6.0_21

java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space


So I had to get a pc rebuilt at work and had to reinstall everything. I downloaded Eclipse Galileo IDE for Java EE Developers from here :

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/eclipse-ide-java-ee-developers/galileosr2

and the latest sdk from sun which at the time was 6 update 21

I then added the Android eclipse plugin and set it up as normal.

I started to create a HelloWorld Android application and found eclipse repeatedly crashed and froze up, almost 20 times, when I was doing basic editing.

I tried removing the mylyn plugin but this made no difference so then I tried jdk 6 update 20 and this resolved my issue.

http://java.sun.com/products/archive/j2se/6u20/index.html


http://wiki.eclipse.org/FAQ_How_do_I_run_Eclipse%3F

which states

The Eclipse 3.3 - 3.6 launchers for Windows have a problem with the Oracle/Sun Java VM version '1.6.0_21'. You have three choices to work around this:

1. switch back to '1.6.0_20' (as of July 19, 2010 it can still be downloaded here)
2. Change the commandline for launching or add the following line after "-vmargs" to your eclipse.ini file:
-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
(Detailed instructions/examples)
3. For Helios, download the fixed eclipse_1308.dll and place it into
(eclipse_home)/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_1.1.0.v20100503

helps if I RTM