Bug#446299: eclipse: Crashes on startup

[Arie Skliarouk]

>
> 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

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Arie
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