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When I'm editing XML files in Eclipse (mainly, Android layouts and so), it causes leaks on XServer and it ends eating all my RAM (4GB), so I have to Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to continue.

Do you know any remedy for that?

Marvin Pinto
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gskbyte
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  • How do you know Eclipse leak memory? Does the memory get free if killing Eclipse? – Kane Mar 06 '12 at 03:20
  • I filed a bug here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=26473 –  Mar 06 '12 at 06:12
  • @haibison Seeing as this is a _known_ bug, what result did you expect by placing a bounty on _Stack Overflow_? :) – Marvin Pinto Mar 06 '12 at 14:17
  • @Marvin, I'm hoping... Android team does not yet confirm this is a bug. And I hope there is someone knowing how to solve this. If I had 10k reputation, I'd be ready and be happy to give it to someone, honestly. I can work with xml but the visual controls are better. I'm really worrying about my projects and deadlines... :-( –  Mar 06 '12 at 14:24
  • @haibison Fair enough, I was more curious than anything :) Could what you are experiencing just be the result of a large-ish Android project loaded in Eclipse? What I mean by that is, when you install the Google Eclipse plugin which comes with all the fancy UI editing and what not, could what you're experiencing just be the result of _all that_ loaded in memory, and not necessarily a memory leak? – Marvin Pinto Mar 06 '12 at 14:29
  • @Marvin, No it's just a small project. Even if I create new sample project with an activity. I just right click on the control, then, for example select "Edit Text"/ "Edit ID"... Then close it. Then open it again... And, xserver is eating my RAM :-)... If you are confused and want to try, I am using TeamViewer, you are welcome. I can give you my email if you want to? –  Mar 06 '12 at 14:35
  • @haibison That does sound like a valid issue. Good luck, I hope you get this resolved. – Marvin Pinto Mar 06 '12 at 14:48
  • @Marvin, I'm sorry for my English and if my words were bad... Thank you for discussion :-) –  Mar 06 '12 at 14:53
  • @hai: Does [Kane's advice](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2561161/how-to-avoid-eclipse-leaks-on-xserver-when-editing-android-xml-files#comment12144106_2561161) to kill Eclipse return the memory? If not, please also file a bug against Xorg with your distribution vendor. (When the client dies, X should return nearly all the server-memory that the client forced the server to allocate.) Furthermore, the `Mem` column of a system monitor utility is nearly useless on its own. The `top(1)` utility reports `VIRT`, `RES`, `SHR` -- what do they say? How much swap do you have and how much is used? – sarnold Mar 09 '12 at 08:46
  • @sarnold Hi, I have raised the bug again, and saved all memory information into several files. You can find them [here](https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B5fb5xSiWiGoSWY2RGNnSU9TWFdKcEpvY2F2TE9IUQ). I have 4 GB swap. After I killed java, the xserver's memory seemed returned to a half... –  Mar 09 '12 at 10:47

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Eclipse Juno and ADT v20 seem to be working well.

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It might help if you start eclipse off your java interpreter with a garbage collector enabled via the command line. Something like this could work:

java /path/to/eclipse -XX:+UseParallelGC

You could also add some swap space to your computer as a final option, but of course that's one step above asking you to go out and buy more ram.

For more information on garbage collection in java, look here

Blackle Mori
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  • Thanks. I added param `-XX:+UseParallelGC` as you said. But it didn't help. Do I need to specify a number instead of `-XX`? –  Mar 09 '12 at 04:10
  • I think xserver will eat all my RAM :-), even if I had 32 GB. As gskbyte said: _it ends eating all my RAM (4GB)_... And as in my case: xserver keep eating the RAM, second by second. But thank you for your help. –  Mar 09 '12 at 04:14
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I've seen this issue using eclipse in Linux and Windows, and it sucks!

Try reverting your ADT installation to a previous version.

go to: help --> install new software at the lower right-hand corner click what is "ALREADY INSTALLED"?

click the Installation History tab

you'll see a list of time stamps and hopefully you'll have a older version of ADT to revert to

Hopefully that fixes all of "our" problems until a update is released!

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