Eclipse tweaking

My eclipse died today (again)
I did the mistake of installed a bunch of plugins and then a few more, and lo and behold, the eclipse slowed down and a day later failed to start.
Eclipse plugins/distributions hell makes "DLL-Hell" seam a likes a pleasant place.

I just installed a new clean replacement. Few performance tweaks worth doing.

• Change the ridiculously low memory cap of -Xmx384m to at least -Xmx1024m in eclipse.ini 
• Use a shared, external plugin folders, so that you will not have to re-install all of them when you decide to upgrade to the next great eclipse version.  Just add this to the eclipse.ini Dorg.eclipse.equinox.p2.reconciler.dropins.directory=/path/to/shared/plugins/directory.
• Install this tiny but great plugin: http://code.google.com/p/tarlog-plugins/ which allows you to open shell/window and to re-size with ctrl+.  Just put it in the plugin directory above.
• If you have use an SSD drive as the eclipse drive. The change in start-up time is incredible.