regarding Perm Gen Space

Hello,

when i am working with myeclipse i got one error message, that is about Perm Gen Space...... i found some infomation about that, it is regarding non-heap memory and we mention this in ecllipse.ini file......

wright now i just want to know what is this perm gen space ... and what is the role that played in this.... is this regarding VM

[362 byte] By [sricharana] at [2007-11-27 6:34:29]
# 1
The permanent generation is for objects that the vm wants the garbage collector to manage that are not actually allocated by the java application. I.e. interned Strings etc.
YoGeea at 2007-7-12 18:00:54 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...
# 2
http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html
jverda at 2007-7-12 18:00:54 > top of Java-index,Java Essentials,Java Programming...