Eclipse - Improve performance and RAM usage

Question

What can I do to improve Eclipse from using all my computer resources? Eclipse is fast, but other programs are sluggish and mouse is unresponsive because of Eclipse. RAM is at 600 MB (Total 76% used).

Answer 1

Did you try setting VM settings in eclipse startup.

try http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse.ini

I set this in my shell script as "./eclipse -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx1024m ...."

Answer 2

If you open eclipse and 1 or 2 default android's emulator instances, you will run in low memory situations. I strongly recommend using VM hosted emulators like GenyMotion that is much faster than usual emulator. You can find GenyMotion here: http://www.genymotion.com