This one is caused by a clipboard gnome extension. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26540096/eclipse-java-lang-outofmemoryerror-java-heap-space
Disable the extension and the problem goes away. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to eclipse in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/897013 Title: Project Explorer crashes with out of memory Status in eclipse package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: When I start my eclipse it crashes with the following message: 'Project Explorer' has encountered a problem. An internal error has occurred Details>>: An internal error has occurred. Java heap space Then I have the options to quit or to keep on working anyway. If I choose to keep on working there will be further errors stating that eclipse is OutOfMemory. I checked my system monitor and it says that eclipse always needs about 360mb of RAM. I tried to increase the memory using commandline arguments (eclipse -vmargs -Xms64m -Xmx1024m) or by changing the /etc/eclipse.ini. I also tried to increase the Perm-Memory, but none of these changes has any effect on the error or the RAM usage of eclipse. I use Ubuntu 11.10 64bit with eclipse from the repositorys. My java version is: java version "1.6.0_23" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.11pre) (6b23~pre11-0ubuntu1.11.10) OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 20.0-b11, mixed mode) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/897013/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
