Bug#446299: eclipse: Crashes on startup

[Michael Koch]

On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:43:50AM +0200, Arie Skliarouk wrote:
> >
> > 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

Hmm, no I have a much leaner memory usage here. Is the package
eclipse-gcj installed? This depends on some optimized packages for GCJ.
Can you please try this too?


Cheers,
Michael