Eclipse crashing frequently

Question

Eclipse is crashing within 5 minutes of opening it. Eclipse version I am using is 4.4-luna. Below is the error log:

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# A fatal error has been detected by the Java Runtime Environment:
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#  SIGSEGV (0xb) at pc=0x00002b1568210c24, pid=6792, tid=0x00002b15822de940
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# JRE version: Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (8.0_92-b14) (build 1.8.0_92-b14)
# Java VM: Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (25.92-b14 mixed mode linux-amd64 compressed oops)
# Problematic frame:
# V  [libjvm.so+0x815c24]  PhaseIdealLoop::build_loop_late_post(Node*)+0x144
#
# Failed to write core dump. Core dumps have been disabled. To enable core dumping, try "ulimit -c unlimited" before starting Java again
#

Answer 1

This looks like it might be the JVM bug discussed in Eclipse bugzilla report 465693.

A workaround was added in Eclipse 4.5.1

The bug also suggests trying adding one of the following to the -vmargs in your eclipse.ini:

-XX:-UseLoopPredicate

or

-XX:CompileCommand=exclude,org/eclipse/jdt/internal/compiler/parser/TypeConverter.decodeType