Lately I’ve started messing around with the Android SDK. The first thing I noticed is that Eclipse is WAY SLOW on my MAC.

This post solved my problem:

-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion = 1.6
-Xms128m
-Xmx1024m

By changing the above lines in my eclipse.ini file (Applications > Eclipse > right-click and show package contents > Contents > MACOS > eclipse.ini) eclipse started running faster and my crashes stopped…