[news.eclipse.newcomer] Eclipse hates me! Help requested please:

[Kevin Crocker <kevin@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Everyone,

I've been using Eclipse for a while now (since 2.0 days). Lately, 3.1,
3.2, and now 3.3 just don't seem to like me very much. I have installed
them all many times now so I'm getting extremely frustrated with the
current situation.

Europa on a AMD 2Ghz, 2.5Gb RAM machine is so slow that I have to wait
five seconds between mouse clicks. I'm running a fresh install of Ubuntu
Linux 7.04 (which I must say is very nice). I did this because on Fedora 7
it was even worse.

I've tried to read through all the documents regarding the options that
can be used in the eclipse.ini file - but I'm no better off - it's gotten
to the point where it seems that a random selection is better than what I
have.

So, finally, here's my question - what should be in the eclipse.ini to
get some decent performance out of Eclipse 3.3
Here's what it came with - which seems ridiculous to me because Java takes
up almost all of the memory.

-showsplash org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
128M (I haven't tried changing this)
-vmargs
-Xms40m  (I've tried changing this all the way up to 256m)
-Xmx256m (I've tried changing this all the way up to 1024m)
-Dosgi.bundlefile.limit=100

So what do these things mean and why are they so small? Please don't tell
me to RTFM, I've done that and it didn't help - the docs seem to be in
Geekish rather than English.

Kevin