I have a 1.6 GHz P4M with 768 MB of RAM. Often, when I run eclipse, it ties up the entire CPU until I kill the program. This seems to happen most often when problems occur in plugins. When running the standard eclipse 2.1.2 using the Sun 1.4.2_02 JVM, I don't have any problems with the CPU.
Does anything appear in workspace/.metadata/.log? Exceptions are sometimes logged there.
Also, what eclipse RPM are you using? And on which platform/OS?
eclipse-2.1.0-22 #uname -a Linux localhost.localdomain 2.4.21-4.EL #1 Fri Oct 3 18:13:58 EDT 2003 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
Created attachment 96044 [details] log file Here is my eclipse log file. There are a number of errors in there--I'm not sure which ones might have contributed to the cpu problem.
I had a look at your log file. It looks like the perforce plugin may be giving you some problems (some NPEs in net.sourceforge.perforce.*). When you run eclipse, how are you starting it up? Your log file seems to indicate that you are using the Sun JVM.
We might not see a gcj entry in the .log file if it hangs without ever giving an exception. So the absence of this in the .log file isn't necessarily indicative. I haven't been able to reproduce this. I've had a gcj-eclipse open for several days (4 or 5), with many projects (PDE, JDT, and CDT).