Recently Eclipse (Neon 4.6.3) has been giving me problems. It takes a long time to initialize when I start it, the build time is very long and in the console I see more errors than they should.
Investigating some of these problems, I ran WinDirStat on my computer and discovered two files of 6.0 GB each in the directory where I have Eclipse (where Eclipse.ini and Eclipse.exe also live) called java_pid ####. hprof.
This document on Java HProf Files explains that those java_pid files ####. hprof is produced by the JDK as log files for the performance of the CPU. It is the first time that I see (or repair) those files and I have never used the Eclipse Memory Analyzer (MAT) .
Can someone confirm that I can therefore upload (delete) those files without affecting the performance or functioning of the eclipse?