How to fix Groovy Grails Tool Suite 3 extreme memory usage

Question

Groovy Grails Tool Suite always takes more than 3000M of memory. Even at start.

Heap status show about 2500M

How can I fix this, it's not supposed to take that much. I always have to restart my IDE because it's too slow.

I've already upgraded my GGTS.ini:

-Xms320m -Xmx3072m -XX:MaxPermSize=2048m

Unicycle

I never see the IDE take all this at start, but I saw this one time that I opened a large file (groovy sql inserts for tests), the solution was split the file in more than one. – Escapement

That is wayyy too much memory. You shouldn't need to use that much. Does memory usage creep up over time? There could be a memory leak in the IDE. Also, are you using the 4.2 or 3.8 version? What platform and is it 32 or 64 bit? – Nudd

I'm using groovy-grails-tool-suite-3.1.0.RELEASE-e4.2-win32-x86_64 (based on 4.2 on windows 7 64bit) – Unicycle

Answer 1

1. Close unused project
2. Deactivate auto-build
3. Recreate your workspace (Back it up first!)
4. Others solutions: http://blog.normation.com/2010/05/24/optimizing-eclipse-performances/

Unicycle