Problems with eclipse

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:
> 2005/12/19, Panagiotis Astithas <past at ebs.gr <mailto:past at ebs.gr>>:
> 
>     Franco Bruno Borghesi wrote:
>      > Hi everyone.
>      >
>      > Eclipse freezes one or twice a day on my freebsd 6.0/amd64. It
>     seems that
>      > libz problems are gone with last jdk15 update, but eclipse still has
>      > problems. I've tested this on two different installations (same
>     hardare/OS).
>      >
>      > I have attached my last hs_err_pid file.
>      >
>      > I would appreciate any hint anyone could give me.
>      > Thanks.
> 
>     Once again the crash happens when the permanent generation in the heap
>     is almost full. It seems this happens to many people with jdk15 on amd64
>     and usually increasing the heap size does not help much (since the
>     permanent generation gets just a fraction of this). See if you can find
>     a useful combination of the flags discussed here:
> 
>     http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html
>     <http://java.sun.com/docs/hotspot/gc5.0/gc_tuning_5.html>
> 
>     Cheers,
>     Panagiotis
> 
> 
> 
> Panagiotis, thanks for your help.
> I just need to run eclipse, so I decided to downgrade to jdk14, so I can 
> run eclipse without problems.
> 
> Trying to build the port, I get:
> 
> [root at taz jdk14]# make
> printf: missing format character
> ===>  jdk-1.4.2p7_2 is*** Error code 1
> 
> Stop in /usr/ports/java/jdk14.
> 
> I haven't found any answer to this problem in the archives. Does anyone 
> know how I can solve this?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Unfortunately, jdk14 is only for i386, amd64 is only supported by jdk15.

Cheers,
Panagiotis