[news.eclipse.technology] Re: Eclipse Freezing Up

[Daniel Megert <daniel.megert@xxxxxxx>]

Koby Boy wrote:

> Hello All,
>
>     I've been a satisfied Eclipse user now for the past year but 
> suddenly the day before yesterday Eclipse started to act up for me.  
> Before I tell you the symptoms I have to say that *nothing* has 
> changed in my setup (same OS, same JVM, same Plug-ins, etc...).  I was 
> using Eclipse 2.1 when this problem started happening.  When I fire up 
> Eclipse everything loads fine, the GUI, my last project I've worked 
> on, etc...  The problem is when I try to type nothing is showing up on 
> screen, when I try to rebuild my project I get a dialog box with the 
> words "Operation in Progress" and then nothing.  The CPU usage jumps 
> to 100% (50% being eaten up by X and 50% being eaten up by Java).  The 
> only way to get rid of Eclipse is to kill the process either from the 
> command line or with "xkill".  I'm using Gentoo Linux with Sun's 
> 1.4.1_2 JVM and my machine has 512MB of RAM.  I've downloaded the M3 
> build of eclipse and I get the same problem but with this build the 
> progress meter tells me that I have an operation in progress.  That 
> operation is an "update for decoration".  Has anyone else been 
> experiencing this ?  Any help would be much appreciated.
>
> Thanks in advance:
>
> -Koby
I suggest to start Eclipse in a console and then press Ctrl+Break 
(assuming WinX client) to get a stack dump. Then file a bug report 
describing the problem and attach the stack dump.

Hint: Disable the decorators (Window > Preferences > Workbench > Label 
Decorations) and test whether this fixes the problem.

HTH
Dani