Why does Eclipse crash with Xmx, XX:MaxPermSize above certain values?

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Published on 2009-11-26T17:33:02Z Indexed on 2010/05/15 11:54 UTC
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Running Eclipse 3.5.1, JDK 1.6.0_17 on WinXP SP3 32Bit with 3.5 gigs of RAM.
I'm aware of the known Eclipse best practices, still trying to figure out eclipse.ini.

This will launch: -Xmx588m and this won't: -Xmx589m.
Same with -XX:MaxPermSize. Anything above -XX:MaxPermSize=140m won't launch.
The screen of death is simlar to this (taken from here).

Any ideas on why might this be happening?

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