> > Have you tried executing /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse? > When I start /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse, it complains on out-of-memory
# /usr/lib/eclipse/eclipse GC Warning: Out of Memory! Returning NIL! In separate window top shows: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4048 arie 25 0 473m 345m 60m R 100 34.1 0:20.51 java My machine has 1GB of memory. If I run eclipse using "eclipse" command, the memory usage by "java" process baloons to 900Mb before falling out: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 4588 arie 23 0 930m 754m 60m D 81 64.7 0:28.48 java Is the memory consumption reasonable? /usr/lib/eclipse/usr/lib/eclipse/startup.jar looks terribly awful. > Something is wrong here. I have removed the /usr/lib/eclipse/usr directory, to recreate the problem I had back then, but have not found any indication on that. The same huge memory usage. Could be the problem was related to the memory consumption. $ eclipse searching for compatible vm... testing /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj...found $ ls -l /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 26 2007-12-04 16:54 /usr/lib/jvm/java-gcj -> java-1.5.0-gcj-4.2-1.5.0.0/ $ dpkg -S /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.2-1.5.0.0/bin/java java-gcj-compat: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-gcj-4.2-1.5.0.0/bin/java $ dpkg -l | grep java-gcj-compat ii java-gcj-compat 1.0.77-2 Java runtime environment using GIJ -- Arie