Re: Slow display of editor tabs

[Thomas Mäder <thomas_maeder@xxxxxxx>]

Mark Curtain wrote:
> "leon j breedt" <ljb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:ajgd73$kkq$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> > 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.
>
>
> I have 768MB so I don't believe it is a memory problem.  It seems to happen
> if Eclipse has not been used for a while and is like it is "waking up" from
> a slumber.  Is this a Windows thing or a Java thing?
>
>
> > i've submitted a feature request to show a progress indicator of current
>
> VM
>
> > heap usage,
>
>
> Sounds good to me.
>
> Mark

Mark, let me propose an experiment: turn off virtual memory (or set it 
to the minimum). If, as I suspect you observe the behaviour of windows, 
the problem should not appear anymore.

Thomas