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Eclipse Europa hangs often [message #323012]

Wed, 05 December 2007 01:28

Eclipse User

Hi,

I have been having a serious recurring problem with Eclipse since I
started using Europa.

The problem is that the IDE hangs quite often. When it hangs, it uses all
available CPU. The trigger for the hang could be anything: requesting
annotations on a file, opening a file, switching to a different
perspective. I can't say that I've found a pattern to the triggers. I need
to kill the process and restart (which I need to do sometimes more than
once an hour!).

I've tried increasing the amount of memory available to the VM I'm running
in. I've also looked in the log file which is created by default and not
found any indication of why it is hanging. I haven't been able to find any
similar bug reports.

I'm using version Version: 3.3.1.1 (Build id: M20071023-1652) running on
Fedora Core release 6 with Java 1.5.0_08.

Any suggestions for things I could check or do to prevent these hangs
would be very much appreciated!

Thanks,
David

Re: Eclipse Europa hangs often [message #323025 is a reply to message #323012]

Wed, 05 December 2007 07:38

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: merks.ca.ibm.com

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David,

Have a look at

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/How_to_report_a_deadlock

I know what you describe doesn't sound like a deadlock, but this
approach would help determine what the process is doing and that might
help...

David Resnick wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been having a serious recurring problem with Eclipse since I
> started using Europa.
> The problem is that the IDE hangs quite often. When it hangs, it uses
> all available CPU. The trigger for the hang could be anything:
> requesting annotations on a file, opening a file, switching to a
> different perspective. I can't say that I've found a pattern to the
> triggers. I need to kill the process and restart (which I need to do
> sometimes more than once an hour!).
>
> I've tried increasing the amount of memory available to the VM I'm
> running in. I've also looked in the log file which is created by
> default and not found any indication of why it is hanging. I haven't
> been able to find any similar bug reports.
>
> I'm using version Version: 3.3.1.1 (Build id: M20071023-1652) running
> on Fedora Core release 6 with Java 1.5.0_08.
>
> Any suggestions for things I could check or do to prevent these hangs
> would be very much appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> David
>

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David, 
 
Have a look at 
<blockquote><a
href="http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/How_to_report_a_deadlock">http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/How_to_report_a_deadlock</a> 
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I know what you describe doesn't sound like a deadlock, but this
approach would help determine what the process is doing and that might
help... 
 
 
David Resnick wrote:
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type="cite">Hi,
 
 
I have been having a serious recurring problem with Eclipse since I
started using Europa. 
The problem is that the IDE hangs quite often. When it hangs, it uses
all available CPU. The trigger for the hang could be anything:
requesting annotations on a file, opening a file, switching to a
different perspective. I can't say that I've found a pattern to the
triggers. I need to kill the process and restart (which I need to do
sometimes more than once an hour!).
 
 
I've tried increasing the amount of memory available to the VM I'm
running in. I've also looked in the log file which is created by
default and not found any indication of why it is hanging. I haven't
been able to find any similar bug reports.
 
 
I'm using version Version: 3.3.1.1 (Build id: M20071023-1652) running
on Fedora Core release 6 with Java 1.5.0_08.
 
 
Any suggestions for things I could check or do to prevent these hangs
would be very much appreciated!
 
 
Thanks,
 
David
 
 
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Re: Eclipse Europa hangs often [message #323037 is a reply to message #323012]

Wed, 05 December 2007 11:52

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: wharley.bea.com

"David Resnick" <abunetta@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:03a3b392293920bef8b2e642b16b0777$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hi,
>
> I have been having a serious recurring problem with Eclipse since I
> started using Europa.
> The problem is that the IDE hangs quite often. When it hangs, it uses all
> available CPU. [...]
>
> Any suggestions for things I could check or do to prevent these hangs
> would be very much appreciated!

Maybe run eclipsec instead of eclipse, so that you get a console window; and
then when it hangs, go into the console window and hit Ctrl+Break. With a
Sun 1.5 VM, that should give you a thread dump so you can see what threads
are doing what. Do it a couple times and see if you can find a pattern,
e.g. a thread that is still busy doing the same thing.

Re: Eclipse Europa hangs often [message #323047 is a reply to message #323037]

Thu, 06 December 2007 00:09

Eclipse User

Thanks! I've got it running from a terminal window will check the threads
next time it hangs.

-David

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