Why is Eclipse Europa constantly crashing?

Question

I'm currently battling with Eclipse Europa to get it to play ball with an SVN repository and a Tomcat project. Everytime it bails out, I get the following:

JVM terminated. Exit code=1
/usr/java/latest/bin/java
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms128m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-jar /users/0600083h/Level 3/TeamProject/eclipse/plugins
/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-os linux
-ws gtk
-arch x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher /users/0600083h/Level 3/TeamProject/eclipse/eclipse
-name Eclipse
--launcher.library /users/0600083h/Level 3/TeamProject/eclipse/pluginS/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.0.3.R33x_v20080118/eclipse_1023.so
-startup /users/0600083h/Level 3/TeamProject/eclipse/plugins    /org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar
-exitdata 3ea8013
-vm /usr/java/latest/bin/java
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-Xms128m
-Xmx512m
-XX:MaxPermSize=128m
-jar /users/0600083h/Level 3/TeamProject/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.1.R33x_v20080118.jar 

It seems to happen intermittently - when starting the server, when connecting or committing to the repo. I can't suss out a cause, and having it crash every 2 minutes if no good...

Any suggestions for how to rectify this?

Answer 1

Doing SVN is... stressful to Eclipse, for lack of a more precise description. There are (at least) two different SVN connectors: One is java-based and not highly efficient, so it causes a bunch of memory/GC thrashing. The other is native, with all the dangers that can arise from that.

But I can't claim a direct connection.

My Eclipse (Europa, and later Galileo) used to crash intermittently too. This improved when I got a new Linux installed on my box.

Answer 2

You could try using the 'other' SVN client, depending on which one you use. I currently use subversive having previously used subclipse. Both worked well for me when I used Europa.

• Subclipse
• Subversive

Not a fix/solution for your problem, but maybe something to try.