Eclipse is an IDE providing a lot of tools to develop software in various languages. Installing Eclipse is just download the latest version and unzipping it somewhere in your home folder.
But Eclipse comes with some non optimal default settings. So it’s better to fix these settings before you start coding.
Change the Memory Settings
First open the eclipse.ini file located in your install folder. You will find the following memory settings:
-Xms256m
-Xmx2048m
This settings are typical to low if you have 8G or more memory available in your notebook. So double both values first:
-Xms512m
-Xmx4g
Change the Workspace Settings
After your launched Eclipse you should change some other default settings in the preference dialog. Open Window -> Preferences and change the following defaults:
General -> Workspace: change the ‘Text file encoding’ to UTF-8
General -> Workspace : change ‘New Text file line delimiter’ to Unix