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I had this problem that Eclipse use to run very slow on Ubuntu for some reason, I always wondered that it must be my RAM issue or something. Blah! My ignorance would have been better if I would have googled it at the first go rather then making my own assumptions. The problem evidently was with GIJ(GNU interpreter for Java) which ubuntu installs by default. A workaround to this problem is by choosing SUN's java which can be done by using command: sudo update-alternatives --config java and selecting the Sun's java which was option 2 in my case. After doing this switch you need to restart eclipse. If things still does not work fine then you might have to edit the jvm config files using : sudo -b gedit /etc/jvm and move the line: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun to the top and edit eclipse's java_home file using : sudo -b gedit /etc/eclipse/java_home and add: /usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun to the top of the file. Now restart the eclipse. If the problem prevails, go and buy some more ...

This is one problem which I have been trying to solve for a real long time with my Eclipse 3.5 Galileo. The problem was that I was not able to connect to the network to get the repository for the plugins. For long I have been doing the manual install of the plugins but it does not always works out. Like when I wanted GWT Designer plugin, I was unable to find the .zip file for the same. So, the solution: 1) First go to Windows->Preferences->Update/Install sites and for one of the sites click the Test Connection tab on the right. 2)If it takes long and does not connect to the repos site, that means there is something wrong with your eclipse setting or the the test site. Here, we assume that there is something wrong with your eclipse settings and try to retify it. 3)There must be a proxy server which your company must be enabling, so u need to give proxy data with Manual mode in Windows->Preferences->General->Network. Give it for all 3, HTTP,HTTPS and SOCK. 4)Again, go to s...