Zend Studio Switching Workspace closes Zend Studio

by antbrown on September 4, 2009

This was driving me nuts…

I kept getting “out of memory” errors in Zend Studio from having too many projects open at a time, I tried setting the maximum allowed memory to 2048MB which really… I mean really… should be heaps… but apparently not.

So I decided to branch off the big projects into their own Workspace

  1. Go to Switch Workspace -> Other
  2. Create a new Folder for your workspace: Eg: ~/Zend/workspaces/MyCoolWorkspace
  3. Zend Studio promptly quits

However… when you relaunch the studio it will launch with the newly created Workspace. You can now Import existing projects into the Workspace and be free from “out of memory” errors.

So, the only way around it is to Switch Workspace, wait for it to quit, then relaunch. I’m using Quicksilver so the relaunching isn’t a big hassle.

Apparently this has been filed as a bug for Zend Studio 7, but I wish they would’ve got a stable 6.x version working before working on 7

{ 2 comments… read them below or add one }

Roy Ganor September 4, 2009 at 10:28 am

Hi, thanks for this review!

I noticed that when running Studio from command line it works like a charm…

anyway we will probably fix it soon,
Roy

antbrown September 4, 2009 at 11:17 am

Hi Roy,

Thanks for your quick comment, I couldn’t reproduce the expected behavior by launching from the command line, are you using any special arguments?

I’m running OS X Leopard

Btw, is there a manual page for launching via command line, I couldn’t find mention of it on the support site or built-in docs?

I’ve predominantly been using the ZendStudio.app to launch it- I’d hate to be missing out on extra functionality :-)

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