[news.eclipse.tools.pdt] Re: Autocompletion and Typing Sluggish - PDT2.0

["Michael Spector" <michael@xxxxxxxx>]

Are your project files placed on some network drive, or are they placed 
locally?
I'm asking, since we have some network performance issues: 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=259788


"Tim College" <tim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message 
news:588ec54df0bfb0bf0c37137d7a9f9435$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> I'm running Ubuntu on a dual-core laptop with 3GB of RAM.
>
> When typing, Eclipse/PDT often hangs on attempts to show me auto-complete 
> options.  It becomes unresponsive for a few seconds, then "works" again.
>
> Also (related?) some times typing gets so slow that I'll be almost a line 
> or two ahead of the screen, and I need to stop and wait for Eclipse to 
> catch up.
>
> I never had these sorts of issues with Europa/PDT1.
>
> I edited my eclipse.ini file to increase memory - here's what I did:
>
> -startup
> plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.101.R34x_v20080819.jar
> -showsplash
> org.eclipse.platform
> --launcher.XXMaxPermSize
> 1024m
> -vmargs
> -Xms256m
> -Xmx1024m
>
> That actually helped, but has not solved the issue.  When it's happening, 
> Eclipse is usually using ~300MB, so I'm not sure that increasing it 
> further will help (but I'm going to try ;) )
>
> The project that I'm working with is not small - probably close to 4000 
> php files.
>
> Anyone have any ideas?
>
> Thanks
> Tim
>