[news.eclipse.newcomer] Re: debugging has become a pain in eclipse

[eclipse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (josh vanderberg)]

I too have been suffering this issue intermittently during debugging.  I 
tried the suggestion below, and it did not seem to help.  I did however 
find that removing all my breakpoints and starting over with just the few 
breakpoints I needed dramatically improved debugging speed.

Matthew Laurenson wrote:

> Haris

> I was observing similar behaviour to yours with remote debugging, but seem 
> to have sorted it just now. The problem for me was the "Source Lookup 
> Path" in Eclipse on the Source tab under Run Debug...
> By default the source path contained a large list of jar files, most of 
> which didn't have any source anyway. I removed the "Default" entry, and 
> added in just my project source folder. This made an incredible difference 
> to the speed of execution (something that took 30 minutes now takes 10 
> seconds).

> I had tried turning off hyperthreading...

> Good luck with sorting out your problem.

> Regards
> Mattthew