[hirowla]

I’ve noticed that since installing MyEclipse, aspects of Eclipse’s general performance have downgraded significantly. In particular, stopping at breakpoints and switching perspectives are just painful – almost too painful to use. I thought this was my slower work computer, but my home system has similar problems.

Can people suggest ways of “tweaking” MyEclipse so Eclipse generally runs faster? Not loading all of the plugins for example (I only use 2 appservers, so I don’t need the other 20 most of the time)? Stopping some of the functions I’m not using? Adjusting Eclipse?

I’m running Eclipse 3.0.2, with MyEclipse 3.8.4, on Windows XP SP2. Both machines have 1Gb of RAM (which I was monitoring very closely early on, as I thought this was the problem).

Thanks,

Ian

[Scott Anderson]

Ian,

>Can people suggest ways of “tweaking” MyEclipse so Eclipse generally runs faster?

The issue is likely that you’re starting Eclipse with the default heap size (64M) instead of adjusting it for the size of your workspace and additional tools. If you change the commandline arguments you use to start Eclipse to include some VM settings, you’ll get greatly improved performance. Like this:
eclipse.exe -vmargs -Xms256M -Xmx512M.

>Not loading all of the plugins for example (I only use 2 appservers, so I don’t need the other 20 most of the time)?

Eclipse only loads the plugins in needs when they’re required. However, given that we double the number of tools in Eclipse itself, more memory is needed simply to support the increased capabilities effectively. The commandline arguments should take care of it.

[hirowla]

I was already using the -Mx argument, but I decided to use the -Ms argument as well. The performance seems about the same. Any ideas?

Thanks,

Ian

[Scott Anderson]

>The performance seems about the same. Any ideas?

Unqualified statements like this are hard to respond to, in all honesty, since it’s based on some unarticulated expectation. Can you be specific as to what you’re seeing that you interpret as taking too long? Also, can you please post all the information we request in the [URL=http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2+file-viewtopic-t-393.html]Posting Guidelines[/URL] thread at the top of this forum? That will give us some context so that we can determine if this is an installation issue, a configuration problem, or a bug. Thanks.

[hirowla]

The best I was able to come up with was that the Eclipse “auto-refresh” was turned on. Once I turned that off things ran a bit faster, but slower that I’d hope.

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