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| Helios Unhandled event loop exception [message #635866] |
Thu, 28 October 2010 12:24  |
 Chris Gage
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Registered: July 2009 |
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I am using Helios which I downloaded under the Friends of Eclipse "early" availability. I work on fairly large HTML files, transcribing 19th century history to the web, see http://www.ibiblio.org/britishraj. I usually start my Eclipse phase with a large HTML file which has been saved as "Web page, filtered" from Microsoft Word.
This MS format has a bunch of debris which I edit out using global changes containing regular expressions in the find/replace function of the Eclipse editor. Sometimes these changes work correctly, although they take several minutes of UI lockup on my 2GB Core2 Quad 6600 machine.
Sometimes I see
Unhandled event loop exception
Java heap space
and then I get about eight consecutive dialog boxes of different sizes, saying something similar, and then the famous "do you want to exit the workspace" message, to which I always reply YES. Eclipse is still running at this point so I have to kill the process in the task manager. I have tried using "eclipse -vmargs -Xmx1024M" but it doesn't make any difference, I still get the same error.
An example of the kind of regular expression change that causes this problem:
Find: <p class="page">([\d]+)</p>
Replace with: <p class="page"><a name="page$1"<Page $1</a></p>
There are 619 occurrences of this string, in an HTML file that is 1043Kb, 17000 lines.
Since I got Helios in June (?) this has happened about 100 times, each time losing valuable work. I have been using Eclipse since 2001 (IBM WSAD 4), and am totally dependent on it, and anyway I can't find any other tool that gives me the function I need to do this without paying several hundred dollars, so I'd appreciate some advice.
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| Re: Helios Unhandled event loop exception [message #640370 is a reply to message #639538] |
Sun, 21 November 2010 06:15  |
David Williams
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On 11/16/2010 03:16 PM, Chris Gage wrote:
> nudge on this one, I really would like at least some advice.
I don't have much advice I'm confident that would help, but maybe some
hints and tips.
First, a Megabyte size file is fairly large for our HTML Editor ... and
it's not really size that counts, but number of elements. so if there's
any way to remove "junk elements" first, that might help with subsequent
editing.
Also, I have had experience in past with "importing" pages from the web,
and the End-of-Line often didn't work well, so I'd end up with huge
files, that consisted of only a few lines, each 10 of thousands of
characters long. Another fringe case that doesn't edit well in Eclipse
(though there's been improvements over the years). So, if that's
happening to you, in these cases, simply formatting the file first
(before it is in an editor) can help subsequent editing (so .. that's be
right click on the file in navigator, and select 'source,format' (I
think) ... again, without opening it in an editor until after formatted.
I was going to suggest using only the file-search option (with file
specifically not open in an editor) but sounds like you have already
tried that and didn't work. (In the off chance you tried it, and editor
was open at same time, try it without an editor open ... having the
editor open causes lots of extra work, as you can imagine, to keep thing
in sync, notified, updated, etc.
While not very direct, you might look for some way to break the file up,
temporarily, say into three files, and then do the operations on each of
them, and then put them back together. The problem might be that
something is operating exponentially, so "small" chunks" could be
handled, but the longer they get, the more exponential time/memory is
taken.
Probably the most productive course of action is to use a small script
to do some of the preliminary clean-up editing first. Java, Ant, even
bash scripts are pretty powerful in doing this type of "stream editing".
If you don't know the tools or languages, ask a friend to help get you
started ... or search the web for some "how to" instructions.
Oh, and once you see those type of errors like "heap problem" then
thinks are probably left in a bad state and you do have to exit the
workbench and start over (don't save anything) .. not sure if that was
clear.
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