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What does this indicator on the ADT mean?

When developing an Android project with the ADT then there is this indicator at the bottom of the IDE :

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What does it represent ? And what to do if it reaches higher value ?

Solution

  • The graphic shows the values of the maximum usable runtime memory, and the memory currently being used. Often when you have a large number of projects opened and have ticked the 

    Build Automatically

    setting, Eclipse needs larger and larger amounts of runtime memory. The current maximum memory value can be seen in

    Android SDK/eclipse/eclipse.ini

    In the above file, the parameter

    org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize

    indicates the maximum size the heap memory is allowed to grow to.

    When you click on the "garbage bin" icon, the garbage collector for Eclipse IDE is invoked, reducing the RAM usage.