When running on the IBM Java 5.0 VM, Eclipse crashes while the user is typing in an editor. If using this VM you must disable the JIT
 with the -Xnojit vm argument to avoid the crashes (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=116730). The command line for launching Eclipse with this vm should be: 
"eclipse -vmargs -Dosgi.locking=none -Xnojit"

There is a bug in the Oracle Java 7 64-bit JRE (b147) which may cause Eclipse
to crash (http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=7070134).  
The crash can be avoided by using the -XX:-UseLoopPredicate VM argument 
(-vmargs -XX:-UseLoopPredicate).  Alternatively, you can use a different JRE.