Eclipse crashes with “Unable to create new native thread” - any ideas? (my settings and info inside)

Question

I\'m having trouble with Eclipse routinely crapping out on me (and being generally sluggish) and I was wondering if anyone could give me any insight. The message that gets t

Answer 1

I also had trouble with Eclipse Luna on Fedora 20. I've read a lot about different memory options and still couldn't figure out the problem. It drove me crazy.

Finally I realized that by default, the number of processes a regular user can have on Fedora is very limited. Content of limits.d/90-nproc.conf:

*          soft    nproc     1000

Raising this to 5000 fixed my "Unable to create new native thread" problems.