[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: PDT 2.0.0GA unusably slow

[Nick Boldt <nickboldt+eclipse+newsgroup@xxxxxxxxx>]

Using Samba or NFS mounts directly (ie., remotely accessed workspaces / 
projects / files) isn't really recommended.

A better approach is to either put your files in a vcs like CVS, SVN, 
Git or Bzr, and share through that mechanism.

Or, not non-versioned file sharing, there's the Remote System Explorer 
(RSE) [1] which caches a local copy of your stuff to improve Eclipse's 
performance, but also synches changes w/ the remote system.

See also http://wiki.eclipse.org/TM_and_RSE_FAQ (search for "samba")

[1] http://www.eclipse.org/dsdp/tm/

Dennis Verspuij wrote:
> Hello, I just installed latest PDT 2.0.0GA from the all-in-one download. 
> I added an existing large PHP project to the workspace. The project uses 
> the Symfony framework, so I added the framework to the build path in 
> order to have code assist etc. Furthermore I installed Subclipse 1.4.7, 
> Mylyn 3.0.3 with Trac connector and Symfoclipse 1.2.1 for its yml 
> editor. The project is located on a Samba network drive.
>
> My problem is that PDT is extremely slow in (re)building, e.g. it takes 
> up to 15 minutes to complete with 10% average CPU consumption. During 
> the period PDT cannot be used. The same happens every now and then while 
> editing a PHP file (for example inserting a dollar sign ($)) and PDT 
> attempts to show some code completion/assist possibilities. I might turn 
> the latter features off, but it's PDT I want to use for that in the 
> first place. I used PDT 1.0.3. before and it was much faster even tough 
> it had to rebuild a project every time.
>
> Does anyone experience these problems as well or have have suggestions 
> to fix this? I noticed bug 259788 
> (https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259788), can this be 
> related?

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