Problem: Your happily working on some project in Eclipse on your Ubuntu and bam! This stupid memory error is wasting your
time.
“GC overhead limit exceeded.”
Solution: We don’t have time for this, fix it. Follow these steps.
Note: (Change the Red Text to your preference)
First…
1. Open a Terminal and type: ps aux | grep java and check what the number of the process.
2. Type: kill ProcessNumber
In my example it was: kill 3782
3. Open Eclipse Again. From the Menu, select Help and click About Eclipse
4. Click on Installation Details and select the tab Configuration
Under -launcher, your launcher directory path is listed.
5. Go back into the terminal and type: gedit /YourLaucherDirectoryPath/eclipse.ili
6.Change the following three.
.. XX:MaxPermSize=256m
. Xms40m
-. Xms512m
To this
-. XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
. Xm512m
.. Xms1024m
7.Save and Restart Eclipse
Congratulations! You can now get back to work! “J