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I'm programming in PHP (PDO). I have done this in gedit, but now I'm using Eclipse. The problem is that it is very slow. First I worked with a FTP connection and edited the PHP files directly in the FTP connection.

I have done some research and found these links:

  • SO question — my problem is that the slowness is throughout the whole document.
  • Blog posting — I have tried all the tips, but without good results.

I have tried to edit files on my hard drive, but that does not work for me either.

I'm working on ubuntu 12.04, with a Intel dual core 2.4GHz 4GB RAM. My computer is about 3 years old. I hope you can help me with this! It is very irritating.

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LEDfan
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  • I don't understand why it's offtopic? There are 26489 eclipse tags. – LEDfan May 24 '12 at 13:20
  • Erm, I must apologise. This is not off topic. I am the one who should be reading the FAQ. Too much coffee today, trigger happy. – karim79 May 24 '12 at 13:23

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You should try tuning the settings of the JVM in which you run eclipse, take a look at this post here on StackOverflow that list best settings for eclipse.

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  • Thanks for the response. But new my eclipse isn't working anymore. But I found I'm using a verry old version. I will download another version new. – LEDfan May 24 '12 at 13:19
  • Ok, however a tuning of the configuration could be necessary for achieving best performance even new versions ... – aleroot May 24 '12 at 13:21
  • I know, but I had versoin 1.1, and the configuration files you gives, where for version 3.5. – LEDfan May 24 '12 at 13:23
  • It works! I have download the last version of eclipse. I will edit the config file, if it won't work again. – LEDfan May 24 '12 at 13:59
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On Linux, I've noticed a good performance improvement setting the Theme to Classic (was GTK).

Window -> Preferences, General, Appearance, change Theme to Classic, click Apply, restart Eclipse.

Of course eclipse.ini JVM settings also help, but I've already done that before, and besides already mentioned by the other answer.

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