The reason of unnecessary crashes of eclipse

Question

I have a clean Ubuntu 13.04 installation on my machine. The machine has a pretty good configuration (e.g., Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3820 CPU @ 3.60GHz, 1600 MHz, 32 GB DDR3 RAM, etc.)

I use Juno Service Release 2, however it sometimes crashes without any reason at random times. It makes me really sick. I used the newer versions of Eclipse and had the same problem earlier.

I am not sure whether the source of the problem Ubuntu or Eclipse. Is there any solution for it?

Do I need to just get used to it, if I want to keep using Eclipse?

Answer 1

It is very difficult to diagnose Eclipse crashes without more details, it can be a bug... Nevertheless, I would recommend to make some experiments, such as using the latest java versions to run eclipse and also take a look at your "eclipse.ini" and try to optimize a bit your JVM configurations, e.g.: increase memory for Eclipse (you have 32GB, you can allocate quite a lot). The following references are a good source of "tips and tricks" to improve your setup:

• What are the best JVM settings for Eclipse?
• Ways to optimize my Eclipse ini file?
• How can you speed up Eclipse?