How to Increase Heap Size of Java Program running in Eclipse

It is possible to increase the heap size allocated by the JVM by using command line options Here we have 3 options

-Xms<size>        to set the initial Java heap size
-Xmx<size>        to set the maximum Java heap size
-Xss<size>          to set the java thread stack size

$ java -Xms1G -Xmx2G MainClass

In the above line, we have set the minimum heap size to 1GB and maximum heap size to 2GB.
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