[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: Performance...Wildy Variant!

[Ed Merks <Ed.Merks@xxxxxxxxx>]

John,

The details here can be useful for tracking what all the threads are up to at any point in time:

http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/How_to_report_a_deadlock

I've heard of issues like validators that run in the background and try to access URLs that are blocked by the firewall as one example of something that might badly degrade performance...


John Bailo wrote:

I'm building a servlet...nothing fancy.

I have a P4 with 4Gigs of memory.

Often I'm running nothing but Eclipse.

Sometimes, things go fast...about 30 percent of the time.

Other times, Eclipse will grind to a near halt, taking 50 percent of CPU just to do something simple like save a file!    Breakpoints will take tens of seconds to be hit (other times, instantly).

Is there something going on in the background that I'm not aware of that's sapping the speed of Eclipse?