Eclipse uses lots of CPU recently, how can I debug this?

During development eclipse uses lots of CPU (50-100%). Is there any way that I can debug this?

I used VisualVM but fround nothing interesting in there.

I searched the net for making eclipse ".log" file contain more verbose data then the default set, but did not succeed.

I tried uninstalling most of the plugins that I installed recenty. This did not help.

My ENV:

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Your Eclipse is probably thrashing memory. First, I'd try bumping up your heap size to something bigger. I usually run with:

-vmargs -Xmx1024M -XX:PermSize=64M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M

Your current Xmx is half that and this could be a problem.

Also, take a look at the Progress view. There may be a job running that you can see.

If that doesn't help anything, you can try taking some thread dumps using the jstack command. If you take a few dumps, then you may be able to get an idea of where all that cpu wastage is.