Eclipse 3.5 (and newer) switching tab is very slow

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I am using eclipse 3.5 (cocoa build) on Macos 10.5 with Java 1.5.0.19.

I just have 3 java files opened 1 files ~ 2000 lines the other 2 are ~ 700 lines.

But when I switch from 1 file tab to another, eclipse takes a long time (~ 20 seconds) to switch to another tab.

I have already change the eclipse.ini to

more eclipse.ini
-startup
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.0.200.v20090520.jar
--launcher.library
../../../plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.cocoa.macosx_1.0.0.v20090519
-product
org.eclipse.epp.package.jee.product
-showsplash
org.eclipse.platform
--launcher.XXMaxPermSize
256m
-vmargs
-Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts
-XX:MaxPermSize=512m
-Xms128m
-Xmx1024m
-Xdock:icon=../Resources/Eclipse.icns
-XstartOnFirstThread
-Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.carbon.smallFonts

Is there any way to make eclipse 3.5 more speedy?

Thank you.

macos eclipse java
14 Answers

Go with the 32-bit Cocoa release. The 64-bit won't help IMHO. It really works great on my 2.4 GHz MBP. I usually have about 30 files open, some fairly large, never experienced what you describe.

Try to get a new plain-vanilla 32-bit Cocoa distro, don't modify anything and check if there's an issue. It could be a rogue plugin, too. Do you have any installed?

Check you heap status. Open the Eclipse preferences, in the very first preferences page there's a "show heap status" option. You might be running low on memory. Check the swap status of your machine using the activity monitor - if it swaps a lot I'd recommend shutting down other applications. In general, I recommend 4 GB RAM for development machines.

zvikico_28230

This is an known issue. Since you are using JDK1.5, you can try the Carbon variant.

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