Eclipse 3.5.1/Birt 2.5.1 Memory Leak?

crowt999

All,

I am now developing reports with the Eclipse 3.5.1/Birt 2.5.1 (Galileo) version under windows XP. I have some reports with only XML data sources, and some with scripted data sources (that still use XML, but we incorporate sax parsing for speed)

It seems to me that there is some memory leak with the workbench.

Some memory numbers: (from windows task manager)
~103 MB : Start Eclipse :
~158 MB : Open XML data source report, first preview
~190 MB : Preview same report 15 times
Again - this is a small report with 2 XML files under 4K - quite simple.

The big jumps happen with the scripted datasources, pulling in many rows of data:
~103 MB : Start Eclipse :
~171 MB : Open scripted data source report, first preview
~252 MB : Preview same report 5 times
This report returns about 562 rows, from a 2.5 MB xml file

The majority of the reports are like this, and the end result is that Eclipse eventually dies with a java Out Of Memory error and the workbench has to shut down.

Interestingly - the older version of Eclipse that I use for the current version of the reports is Eclipse 3.2.2/Birt 2.1.2 and the memory footprint in Windows starts at 2.452 MB - And NEVER goes up!

So something is definitely different in this newer version, and I was hoping that someone out there has seen this before, and could possibly help me resolve this.

Please let me know if any additional information is required

Many Thanks-
Dean