Increase the amount of heap used by Eclipse/FlexBuilder by adding the following command line options:

-vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M

Shortcut Example: "C:\Program Files\eclipse\eclipse.exe" -vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M

Alternatively, you can update your eclipse.ini file.

More information can be found on Ryan Phelan’s site.

These examples have been tested on a Windows XP PC with 2GB RAM.

If you’ve attempted to use subclipse with a secure session, you may well have experienced the dreaded error message:

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