I've been trying this out for the last couple of days on the JBossAS/WildFly code base without any problems so far with about 150 projects.
And I'm running comfortably in 1.5G instead of 2.5G. Idle heapspace is less than 500M rather than the ~1.8G I was seeing before. Thanks, Steve Coy On 17/06/2013, at 9:57 PM, Igor Fedorenko <i...@ifedorenko.com> wrote: > I realize that m2e 1.4 has not been officially released yet but I just > pushed some rather big changes to master/1.5 branch and want to ask m2e > users to help me test them. > > As I explained in the past [1], m2e requires about 1M+ of memory > for each opened workspace maven project. Although memory is cheap and > getting cheaper, using large heap results in noticeable garbage > collection overhead, which becomes apparent with very large workspaces > that require 2G+ of heap. This was getting rather annoying for my nexus > development workspace where I have 300+ projects, so I decided to rework > how m2e manages its various memory caches. > > The first change I just pushed limits number of long-lived MavenProject > instances to just 5 (five). For my workspace and development > habits this reduced Eclipse heap requirements from ~2.5G to well under > 1G without any noticeable side affects. This, of course, does not mean > there are no problems with this change and I'd like to see if other > users with large workspaces can give it a try and provide any feedback, > good or otherwise. As usual, installation repository URLs can be found > on m2e download page [2]. > > > [1] http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/m2e-users/msg02265.html > [2] http://www.eclipse.org/m2e/download/ > > -- > Regards, > Igor > > _______________________________________________ > m2e-users mailing list > m2e-users@eclipse.org > https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users _______________________________________________ m2e-users mailing list m2e-users@eclipse.org https://dev.eclipse.org/mailman/listinfo/m2e-users
