Flex Builder 3 Startup JVM Termination Error
So I just installed a new version of my firewall software, and now neither FB 2 or FB 3 will start. I get a JVM termination error popup, that’s it. As fortune would have it, Neil Webb had blogged about the same problem just today. So I looked up the issue on the Adobe bugbase, and there I found the answer after a little investigation.
Turns out I had some JVM performance tuning set in my shortcut.
…and apparently it was too high. The moment I ran FlexBuilder.exe directly or the shortcut with a lower max mem at -Xmx768m , it worked, no problem. I found I could push it all the way up to 958m, but no more. At 959m, it crashes, just as before.
No idea why installing new software would affect the maximum memory allocation for the JVM, or why a max of 958. But at least it’s working now.
\*replaces hair torn out of scalp\*
Update 02-04-2008: logged an official bug with the Adobe JIRA bugbase