[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Update very slow ?

[Nick Boldt <codeslave@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Install Manager in Eclipse 3.4 supports multithreaded downloads from 
multiple concurrent mirrors and is therefore much faster than the Update 
Manager in Eclipse 3.3.

If you don't have a technical reason for staying on Eclipse 3.3, I 
recommend stepping up to the latest Eclipse 3.4.1.

You may also want to consider an all-in-one bundle such as the Java EE 
bundle. From there you can update it to include CDT and Subclipse.

http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/packages/compare-packages

Nick

David BalaÅic wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I tried to update (menu Help / Software Updates / Find and install...)
> eclipse (the platform/IDE) several times in recent days/weeks, but 
> always canceled it due to slowness.
>
> Today I tried again and after more than 15 minutes the "Update Manager" 
> dialog says "Searching..." and the progress bar is about 25%.
>
> I have Eclipse platform 3.3.2 on win32 (Sun Java 1.6.0_07-b06).
> Otherwise no network problems.
>
> Installed plugins and addons :
>  - subclipse 1.2.4
>  - Eclipse C/C++ development tools (why can't the name be copy&pasted 
> simply ?)
>  - Eclipse CVS Client
>  - some EMF stuff
>  - Eclipse XML Editors...
>  - GEF
>  - WST Common UI 2.0.2
>  - XML Schema Infoset Model (XSD) - twice
>
> Are the servers overloaded ?
>
> Regards,
> David

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