What's the recommended Eclipse CDT configuration for big C++ project (indexer takes forever)

Question

I\'m working on some legacy C++ code written using \"vi\" and \"emacs\" and I am trying to build an eclipse CDT setup to maintain it (on linux). The two main problems I\'ve

Answer 1

-Xss8g on eclipse.ini was also needed on Neon to prevent stack overflow.

Also consider ulimit -Sv unlimited.

Tested on Ubuntu 14.04.