Eclipse 3.5 64-bit Windows 7 performance

Question

I installed Eclipse Galileo and after the troubles with the JDK, its start is good. But I have big performance issues. Every third second, Eclipse hangs for a while. It does not work smoothly. I need an efficient development environment like Eclipse to work. So, it would be very nice if you get a quick reply :)

Both Eclipse as JDKs are 64-bit versions.

Do you have any ideas?

Update

I can not explain the problem from scratch. But in my case, it was a problem between Eclipse and my OSK autocomplete function. If I turned off autocompletion, there were no more freezes. I do not know why using OSK blocks the flow (?) Of the entire editor.

Maybe any of you have an idea why?

Answer 1

I can not explain the problem from scratch. But in my case, it was a problem between Eclipse and my OSK autocomplete function. If I turned off autocompletion, there were no more freezes. I do not know why using OSK blocks the flow (?) Of the entire editor.

Maybe any of you have an idea why?

Thanks for any help!

Answer 2

From your description, it sounds like the garbage collector is starting up. How much RAM did you get in the system? Depending on the plugins you download, Eclipse may take quite a lot. I think the bare minimum is 256 MB, and really you need at least 1 GB, more if you are engaged in web development.

Do you have a modern JVM? Eclipse usually runs much faster with 1.6 JVMs.

One more thing to check if you have an aggressive antivirus? Eclipse plugins are collections of small files in banks; some antivirus scanners can actually slow down performance. If you can, delete the Eclipse installation directory from the scanned files.

Have a look at the EclipseZone article or this question for some general performance recommendations.

Answer 3

Launch Process Monitor and see what system calls and / or file systems the JVM calls. Use filters aggressively to determine a specific process. I had a similar problem when the graphics card utility caused a stream of registry requests for each UI update, which just made Eclipse incredibly slow. (For some reason, SWT hit hard on this error, I'm not sure why.)

EDIT: I meant "Process Monitor", not "Process Explorer". But the link was correct.

Answer 4

You can try to start it from the virtual machine installed on your computer to find out there is still a problem. If this is not the case, it may be easier for you to work only in a virtual machine environment. It does not solve the problem, but can generally avoid it.

Answer 5

Same problem for me

I have Windows 7 Professional 64 bit and 8 GB RAM

Eclipse is extremely slow, probably 5 times slower than the 32-bit Windows Vista machine I recently updated (Europa version), and this machine was a complete dog!

Adding -Xmx1024m -XX: + UseParallelGC -vm C: \ Program Files \ Java \ jdk1.6.0_20 \ jre \ bin \ server \ jvm.dll made a pretty big difference

Answer 6

I had the same problem, so I just switched to the 32-bit version of Eclipse and it works fine, with no performance issues.

Answer 7

I have the same problem as the lack of an answer. I searched the internet for a solution. I found it by adding the below eclipse helios configuration file. -vm C: \ Program Files \ Java \ jre7 \ bin \ javaw.exe

Initially, it looks normal, and you click on various buttons and works on several files in the eclips project. But when I click on debug and step by step. Then he again demonstrates non-recovery. I have a new win7 laptop installed.

Answer 8

I have the same problems with a 32-bit version working with a 32-bit JVM.

Moreover, my RCP application that I developed with Eclipse is slow. I tried both -Xmx1024m and -XX: + UseParallelGC, with no noticeable effect. Has this problem been reported to eclipse.org?