I found this thread: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fro...rs/_NkhrgJOaAw

...which describes how to give more memory to the JVM, except it doesn't. It gets you almost there and assumes you know the final step. With <2months on eclipse and/or working with a JVM language, I don't know the last step. I get to the args tab, see VM args, click on "variables", and see a few dozen variable with little explanation as to which one to change, and none that obviously effect memory usage.

I had decided to maybe try it in emacs instead (despite never having used emacs), but the emacs install instructions I found told me I'd need v23+ (for clojure?), but brew didn't install it. Then I tried "brew update", "brew upgrade emacs", and after waiting 8 minutes while being told v24.3 was being installed, emacs --version still returns 22.1.1

I only want more memory for my poor JVM. My default appears to be 85M. It isn't enough.

-John

Hey, found this:

http://stackoverflow.com/a/3067285/1118698

I just evoked that command w/o the helloworld part. I have no idea why he added that part.

You have to evoke it from the root folder of your Leiningen project or you'll have a JVM crash. Seems like you might have to download the 64 bit if you really want to throttle it up.

Thanks. Tooling has never excited me and I've been dreading figuring this out for a while.

1280M would be a dream. I have a 2yr old Macbook Air, 4M Ram, but no 64-bit kernal, so maybe I coudn't even run java in 64-bit? But that's the least of my worries right now.

Looks like you have a 2 gig max with 32 bit.

Definitely wouldn't bother with trying to learn emacs while trying to learn Clojure. Just make sure you have paredit going. It'll save a ton of headache .