OK, looks like it's some Oracle/Sun issue. Works fine with the OpenJDK: sumo@sumo-PORTEGE-R700:~$ eclipse -vm /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/bin/java -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:PermSize=256M -XX:MaxPermSize=512M
OK, looks like it's some Oracle/Sun issue. Works fine with the OpenJDK: PORTEGE- R700:~$ eclipse -vm /usr/lib/ jvm/java- 6-openjdk/ bin/java -vmargs -Xms512m -Xmx1024m -XX:+UseParallelGC -XX:PermSize=256M -XX:MaxPermSize =512M
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