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running CDT indexer from commandline [message #760771]

Mon, 05 December 2011 03:53

Eclipse User

I am observing that eclipse crashes everytime I try to index a huge codebase. I believe if I run CDT indexer from commandline, while eclipse IDE (in GUI) is not running, it will help me save some of the server resources and chances of successful indexing will be more. I got info from on how to invoke CDT indexer.

http : //aholzner.wordpress.com/2010/09/26/generating-c-index-files-for-eclipse-from-the-command-line-linux/

But I got following error while indexing the code.

$ eclipse -data ~/workspace/ -nosplash -application org.eclipse.cdt.core.GeneratePDOM -target ~/workspace/myPDOM.pdom -source /source_path -id ""
== Initializing
-pprovider not specified - defaulting to org.eclipse.cdt.core.index.export.ExternalExportProjectProvider
== Generation starts
Pre-built index content is incomplete or out of date
== Generation ends
Job found still running after platform shutdown.  Jobs should be canceled by the plugin that scheduled them during shutdown: org.eclipse.core.internal.refresh.RefreshJob
Job found still running after platform shutdown.  Jobs should be canceled by the plugin that scheduled them during shutdown: org.eclipse.core.internal.refresh.RefreshJob

I would appreciate if someone can help me fixing this.

Thanks,
Pankaj

Re: running CDT indexer from commandline [message #1279422 is a reply to message #760771]

Fri, 28 March 2014 14:30

Eclipse User

I recently have a chance to try this and it happened to me as well, but not every time, with the same large code base. Sometimes it does run, but then stops. I am thinking it is because of the index database cache limit.
I am wondering if you know how to increase the index database cache limit from the command line, or probably whatever maximum VM heap size is set in the eclipse.ini is already good enough. Looks like the default index database cache size set within Eclipse is 64MB, so I am wondering if that would be the default when you run GeneratePDOM as well.
Any help is appreciated.
Thank you.

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