Re: Slow display of editor tabs

["leon j breedt" <ljb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mark Curtain" <mcurtain@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Sometimes when I choose different tabs in the editor it can take up to 10
> seconds to display the desired file tab during which time there is no
> hourglass for the cursor.  It seems to be grinding away on the disk for
that
> time so I am assuming that it is the garbage collector at work.
how much memory do you have? on my workstation at work, I have 256MB, and
almost never
have these kinds of slowdowns, whereas when I had 192MB, Eclipse was almost
unusable at times.
so I'm guessing its a memory problem.

regarding incremental garbage collection, you should be able to enable it by
passing the arguments
-vmargs -Xincgc to eclipse.exe when you start it up.

i've submitted a feature request to show a progress indicator of current VM
heap usage,
you can add yourself to the feature list if at all interested :)

http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=22470

hth,
leon.