Eclipse Kepler freezes on 64 bit ubuntu

Question

I just upgraded my Ubuntu to 14.04 a few days ago and in the process switched from 32 to 64 bits. Ever since, Eclipse has gotten really unstable. After having run for a few minu

Answer 1

I faced the same problem and still face it. though the frequency is somewhat become lesser after I increased JVM size in the file "eclipse.ini" just change these lines:

-XX:MaxPermSize=256m
-Xms256m
-Xmx2048m

and start Eclipse from terminal :~/Desktop/eclipse$ ./eclipse

It will decrease the frquency of freezing if not resolve it completely. Hope it helps.