Eclipse 3.2.1 busy-wait problem
Once upon a time I used to do nearly all of my development work in
xemacs. Now, I do nearly all of my development work in
Eclipse. So, it’s a real pain when Eclipse starts
playing up. I have to say that Eclipse is a great product, and it doesn’t fail
very often. However, since the latest batch of auto-updates (to version 3.2.1),
I’ve had four crashes where Eclipse has gone into a 100%-cpu “busy-wait” state,
and I’ve had to kill the process to get it back. This is on two different
computers. I have a number of Eclipse plugins (who doesn’t?), and ijuma on
#eclipse in IRC suggested that I try increasing the MaxPermSize setting for
my JVM, since it can, apparently, cause problems if the VM runs out of a
certain kind of heap
space.
So, my eclipse.ini now looks like:
\-vmargs
-Xms40m
-Xmx256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=96m
Since it’s an intermittent failure, I can’t say for sure yet whether this tweak
has solved my problem, but ijuma seemed to think that increasing the
MaxPermSize was a good idea anyway. I’ll post again if I have some further
data.