Performance Tuning for Eclipse Ganymede

As a java developer I am using Eclipse at work. By adopting to Eclipse Ganymede some days ago, we encountered serious performance issues, especially while the workspace was compiling. The complete IDE was blocked while building the sources, even on a dual core system with 4 GB RAM.
After googling a while, we found out a combination of VM parameters that seem to work fine. Here's what is currently running on my machine (a dual core with 3 GB RAM): __path_to_eclipse__ -showlocation -vm __path_to_java_6_vm__ -vmargs -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=512m -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -Dide.gc=true -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+ExplicitGCInvokesConcurrent
With this configuration, I am able to work while the thousands of projects are compiling happily in the background. ;-)
What are your experiences using Eclipse as a Java IDE concerning performance?

Brontosaurus eggs

After a long day at work (btw: even though it is Friday today) I just walked in the local supermarket to "hunt" something to eat for "dinner". Something healthy, with lots of vitamines and... some tasty red wine (because it is weekend now ;-)). An this is what I found (besides the red wine, of course): Brontosaurus eggs. Here's a picture of these little-fruit-with-the-funny-name: Brontosaurus eggs
Ok, and now, I'll switch it off, that slow grey box in front of me (= my laptop) and I'll try those primeval eggs. I am curious about what they'll taste like. :)

lastfm

I just heard about lastfm from some colleagues a while ago. Yesterday it was so rainy that I spent some hours in front of my computer to check this site out - now I am nearly addicted.

Its nice to enrich your music collection, to find songs "you've heard somewhere a while ago but you don't know the title nor the interpret", ... or to just spend a rainy, quite evening. :o)

And the best: it even worked on my machine (a rather old laptop with really slow celeron inside).

Perhaps you want to enjoy it too: http://www.lastfm.com