the empty quarter

Unfortunately the default memory settings for Eclipse are not sufficient to run BIRT properly on Ubuntu. Editing BIRT reports was fine on my machine, but the preview always crashed or froze Eclipse. When run from the command line, errors like these came up: Exception in thread “SocketListener0-0” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space Exception in thread “SocketListener0-1” java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: […]