Eclipse Community Forums: Java Development Tools (JDT)

Help

Home

Home » Language IDEs » Java Development Tools (JDT) » Eclipse typing slowly(Problem with eclipse)

Show: Today's Messages :: Show Polls :: Message Navigator

Eclipse typing slowly [message #1422378]

Fri, 12 September 2014 19:15

Michael Murphey

Messages: 3
Registered: September 2014

Junior Member

I'm using eclipse luna on Oracle Java 8 on Ubuntu 14.04.1. When I type to edit a file the words on screen lag behind what I'm typing on my keyboard. There is a noticeable delay between when I type a word and when that word appears on the screen. Eclipse doesn't use a troubling amount of memory or CPU. When I type something that's not in a file such as naming a new project, it types normally. I've tried reinstalling eclipse, editing the eclipse.ini file and changing settings but nothing seems to work. I also reinstalled Ubuntu but that didn't work either. I have tried previous versions of eclipse with the same results.

Report message to a moderator

Re: Eclipse typing slowly [message #1422936 is a reply to message #1422378]

Sat, 13 September 2014 16:58

Stephan Herrmann

Messages: 1853
Registered: July 2009

Senior Member

One way for finding out what's causing this would be to open the Progress view and watch what jobs might be appearing there.

If the delay is long enough, you could even use a tool like jvisualvm to get a thread dump while eclipse is still pondering your typed characters.

The key question certainly is: which plugin is causing this?

S.

Report message to a moderator

Re: Eclipse typing slowly [message #1423636 is a reply to message #1422936]

Sun, 14 September 2014 20:08

Michael Murphey

Messages: 3
Registered: September 2014

Junior Member

In the progress view, I didn't see any jobs other than the Git Repository Change Scanner and I don't believe that is the problem since it didn't make any difference when I stopped it. I used visualvm to get a thread dump while I was typing in eclipse and then another thread dump half a minute later after it was done getting the characters on screen.

Attachment: EclipseTyping.tdump
(Size: 26.83KB, Downloaded 258 times)
Attachment: EclipseNotTyping.tdump
(Size: 23.96KB, Downloaded 118 times)