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Eclipse very slow on Win XP [message #276583]

Thu, 25 November 2004 18:29

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: marco_lamanna.libero.it

Hello everybody,

I'm an happy user of Eclipse but sometimes it hangs on and I have to wait
minutes to let him return to work. I noticed my HD led is always on. It
hangs also when I try to open a file from my active project...

My system is: Notebook P4 2.8 Ghz 521MB DDR 333 on WinXP SP2.

Thank for your attention and sorry for my English.

Regards.

Marco

Re: Eclipse very slow on Win XP [message #276584 is a reply to message #276583]

Thu, 25 November 2004 18:37

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: qian.qiao.gmail.com

Did you set VM arguments? Try add this to you eclipse short-cut
"-vmargs -Xmx256M" (without the double quotes), and see if this
helps.

-- Joe

"Marco Luca Lamanna" <marco_lamanna@libero.it> wrote in message
news:co5puf$2if$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm an happy user of Eclipse but sometimes it hangs on and I have to wait
> minutes to let him return to work. I noticed my HD led is always on. It
> hangs also when I try to open a file from my active project...
>
> My system is: Notebook P4 2.8 Ghz 521MB DDR 333 on WinXP SP2.
>
> Thank for your attention and sorry for my English.
>
> Regards.
>
> Marco
>

Re: Eclipse very slow on Win XP [message #276587 is a reply to message #276583]

Thu, 25 November 2004 21:04

Eclipse User

Is this after a period of time of inactivity or not using Eclipse?
This is standard Windows behavior.

There has been several discussions on this in this forum and there are ways
to tweak your system so that it behaves more reasonably.
Try browsing through the archive using:
http://www.eclipse.org/search/search.cgi

HTH
Darins

"Marco Luca Lamanna" <marco_lamanna@libero.it> wrote in message
news:co5puf$2if$1@www.eclipse.org...
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm an happy user of Eclipse but sometimes it hangs on and I have to wait
> minutes to let him return to work. I noticed my HD led is always on. It
> hangs also when I try to open a file from my active project...
>
> My system is: Notebook P4 2.8 Ghz 521MB DDR 333 on WinXP SP2.
>
> Thank for your attention and sorry for my English.
>
> Regards.
>
> Marco
>

Re: Eclipse very slow on Win XP [message #276588 is a reply to message #276583]

Thu, 25 November 2004 21:52

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: Lamont_Gilbert.rigidsoftware.com

Marco Luca Lamanna wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm an happy user of Eclipse but sometimes it hangs on and I have to wait
> minutes to let him return to work. I noticed my HD led is always on. It
> hangs also when I try to open a file from my active project...
>
> My system is: Notebook P4 2.8 Ghz 521MB DDR 333 on WinXP SP2.
>
> Thank for your attention and sorry for my English.
>
> Regards.
>
> Marco
>
>

What JRE are you using?

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Re: Eclipse very slow on Win XP [message #276805 is a reply to message #276583]

Mon, 29 November 2004 09:58

Eclipse User

Originally posted by: eclipse.rizzoweb.com

Marco Luca Lamanna wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I'm an happy user of Eclipse but sometimes it hangs on and I have to wait
> minutes to let him return to work. I noticed my HD led is always on. It
> hangs also when I try to open a file from my active project...
>
> My system is: Notebook P4 2.8 Ghz 521MB DDR 333 on WinXP SP2.

Most likely the problem is a combination of windows memory management
(Windows XP is very aggressive about swapping programs to virtual
memory, even when you don't want them to be), and the fact that laptop
hard drives are usually very slow.
There is a plugin for Eclipse called "Keep Resident" that might help
prevent windoze from swapping Eclipse out so much. If you have enough
RAM you could also try disabling the swap file in windows.

HTH,
Eric

Re: Eclipse very slow on Win XP [message #283660 is a reply to message #276805]

Fri, 08 April 2005 05:12

Eclipse User

> Marco Luca Lamanna wrote:
>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I'm an happy user of Eclipse but sometimes it hangs on and I have to
>> wait minutes to let him return to work. I noticed my HD led is always
>> on. It hangs also when I try to open a file from my active project...
>>
>> My system is: Notebook P4 2.8 Ghz 521MB DDR 333 on WinXP SP2.
>
>
> Most likely the problem is a combination of windows memory management
> (Windows XP is very aggressive about swapping programs to virtual
> memory, even when you don't want them to be), and the fact that laptop
> hard drives are usually very slow.
> There is a plugin for Eclipse called "Keep Resident" that might help
> prevent windoze from swapping Eclipse out so much. If you have enough
> RAM you could also try disabling the swap file in windows.
>
> HTH,
> Eric

Thanks Eric! I had the same problem, but with the KEEP RESIDENT PLUGIN
the problem is gone!

Cheers,
tojotamies

Re: Eclipse very slow on Win XP [message #284439 is a reply to message #283660]

Mon, 25 April 2005 05:10

Eclipse User

tojotamies wrote:
>> Marco Luca Lamanna wrote:
>>
>>> Hello everybody,
>>>
>>> I'm an happy user of Eclipse but sometimes it hangs on and I have to
>>> wait minutes to let him return to work. I noticed my HD led is always
>>> on. It hangs also when I try to open a file from my active project...
>>>
>>> My system is: Notebook P4 2.8 Ghz 521MB DDR 333 on WinXP SP2.
>>
>>
>>
>> Most likely the problem is a combination of windows memory management
>> (Windows XP is very aggressive about swapping programs to virtual
>> memory, even when you don't want them to be), and the fact that laptop
>> hard drives are usually very slow.
>> There is a plugin for Eclipse called "Keep Resident" that might help
>> prevent windoze from swapping Eclipse out so much. If you have enough
>> RAM you could also try disabling the swap file in windows.
>>
>> HTH,
>> Eric
>
>
>
> Thanks Eric! I had the same problem, but with the KEEP RESIDENT PLUGIN
> the problem is gone!
>
>
> Cheers,
> tojotamies

I celebrated too soon... :( - the problem is not gone. Next I will try
to disable the swap-file. Im using Win XP pro, 512 MB, 3GHz
Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D 8830 laptop.

Cheers,
tojotamies

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