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Did you bump up the memory (-Xmx) for Eclipse (in eclipse.ini)? Second: Eclipse "edition" matters... like, there is Eclipse for "Java developers" and the one f
by carterehsmith 11y ago
Did you bump up the memory (-Xmx) for Eclipse (in eclipse.ini)?
Second: Eclipse "edition" matters... like, there is Eclipse for "Java developers" and the one for "J2EE developers, etc".
The J2EE edition includes some tooling for Javascript, and that can get completely stuck (CPU at 100%, vents screaming) while trying to deal with large Javascript libraries (say, jQuery). So, try disabling Javascript validation, see if that helps, or just get a Java developer edition. BTW Eclipse support for Javascript is not good at all, so no big loss if you disable it.
Next... it used to be that certain antivirus software (McAffee for sure) was slowing down everything big time.
Anyways, on a fairly old machine with 8GB RAM, SSD, i7 (4/8) and Oracle JDK and Eclipse 4.4.2. Eclipse works very well. Btw this is on OSX, but some people here use Windows, and it seems to work well on that, too. Hope this helps!