Eclipse editor - slowwwwwwww?

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farseer - 25 Jul 2005 15:56 GMT

Hi,
does any one know if the version 3.0 (build: ) of Eclipse has a memory
leak? On large projects, the editor is slow to begin with, but when it
starts, i see that the jvm hogs about 60MB. after about 1 hour, that
reaches near 100MB. at that point, the editor just pretty much comes
to halt. even highlighting text will cause a very long pause (god
knows what it is looking for).

anyone else run into this? Also, any tips on optimizing eclipse? all
i want is an editor with context sensitive look up and the ability to
see my project tree/structure and class methods. i don't care for
build and compile, i do that form the command line anyway.

I have tried doing some optimization in the form of removing references
to JARS i do not currently need for the classes i am working on, this
helps some, but again, when it hits that 100MB mark, it's pretty much
unuseable. At that point i need to kill it. restart, kill again, then
restart (don't ask me why, but if i restart it the first time, it's
still slow..i apparently have to restart it twice..is it keeping stuff
cached somewhere?)

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farseer - 25 Jul 2005 16:10 GMT

actually, the version i am using is 3.1

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Tim Tyler - 25 Jul 2005 17:33 GMT

farseer <farseer@optonline.net> wrote or quoted:

> actually, the version i am using is 3.1

3.1 is the fastest Eclipse in living memory.

See:

http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/performance/
http://www.eclipse.org/eclipse/development/performance/bloopers.html

Try an earlier version if you really want to know what watching
paint() dry is like.

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Andrew Thompson - 25 Jul 2005 16:13 GMT

> does any one know if the version 3.0 (build: ) of Eclipse ..

I don't know and I don't care.
Why not take it to some folks that might..
<http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index.html>

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Chris Smith - 25 Jul 2005 19:05 GMT

> I don't know and I don't care.
> Why not take it to some folks that might..
> <http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index.html>

Get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, Andrew? Normally
there's at least a point to these rude comments of yours. This time,
you're responding to a perfectly normal post in a Java newsgroup, asking
about a Java development tool. I certainly don't see a problem
anywhere.

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Andrew Thompson - 25 Jul 2005 19:40 GMT

>> I don't know and I don't care.
>> Why not take it to some folks that might..
>> <http://www.eclipse.org/newsgroups/index.html>
>
> Get up on the wrong side of the bed this morning, Andrew?

I've about had my share of hearing about Eclipse (JBuilder,
NetBeans, Vi, Emacs, IntelliJ..) for about this year,
..and perhaps next as well.

And, ..a memory problem? That is hardly a problem best
addressed here. Take it up with the *manufacturer*!

It did not even come out of any of the (all too frequent)
'I luv my IDE' threads that seems to develop every time some
clueless noob asks 'What is the best IDE?' (people should be
slapped for even asking that question, in that form).

So ..checks question. Maybe the answer is ..
"I got up on the wrong side of their *IDE* - this *year*."

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farseer - 26 Jul 2005 04:49 GMT

if i could make it on there to ask the question, i would. you try to
register, you get a "cannot find page" page. you try to have them email
you your previous login pwd which you were sure you had right, it tells
you it doesn't know you. you try to figure out what board could
possibly be the one to answer your question..it's impossible, cause
there are like 50 billion groups and all about the project itself...

anyway, after a year of using eclipse, i'm giving up on it, i spend
about twice the amount of time waiting for it to do what ever the hell
it does ever other second....back to jbuilder for now (until the order
for intellij is approved).

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Ole Ildsgaard Hougaard - 26 Jul 2005 09:46 GMT

>Hi,
>does any one know if the version 3.0 (build: ) of Eclipse has a memory
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>still slow..i apparently have to restart it twice..is it keeping stuff
>cached somewhere?)

Eclipse is a real memory hog. My guess is that you're using a heap of
128MB and most of it is used for real data (not garbage). This will
cause the jvm to garbage collect almost constantly. Try starting
Eclipse with the options -vmargs -Xmx256m.

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