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As nice as Eclipse is, it doesn't half chew through memory. 280MB and counting before I restarted it to try and free some up (this machine only has 512MB of memory). Then again, it is a Java IDE written in Java and so completely out of control.

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Netbeans is even worse. I actually switched to Eclipse for performance reasons. My suggestions are to make sure that you are using the runtime and not the SDK (Eclipse SDK is for developing Eclipse itself, includes a load of space-hogging features for doing so), ensure that all unnecessary perspectives (resource, maybe debug) are closed, and to try tweaking your system JRE.

Java has been getting better in recent times, but software in general has been getting worse. It now takes 192MB of ram to normally install Xubuntu (the light version of Ubuntu Linux), a system maintained as a low-resource alternative. Remember how only a few years back, 512MB was considered a large amount of memory?