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Im running eclipse on my windows 7 machine, 64bit with 6gb ram and core 2 duo. Im currently running Eclipse 3.6 and android 2.2 SDK Im running jdk 1.6

Im noticing that when coding and the context popups to list methods of a class, it hangs Eclipse for up to 15 seconds. This is very frustrating.

One thing to note, when Eclipse hangs, my processor is maxed out, and is being worked by a java process. So its doing something whatever it is. But frequently everytime I finish an object with a period and the context box pops up, its becoming too painful to work with.

I changed some settings in the Eclipse.ini file such as: -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 512m

Is there anything else I should look at:

Burkhard
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Mark
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  • Interested in this myself as well. I have the same experience. Remember reading something that one should make sure to have the latest java version (build 1.6.0_21-b07), but I still experience lag when intellisense pops up (but it seems to be only for Android related classes, not for "pure" Java classes, or my own classes). I think also increasing the MaxPermSize has been a suggested solution, but I haven't found this to work either. – Julian Oct 17 '10 at 11:36
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    I have this problem too. I ran SysInternals Process Monitor which shows it trying to repeatedly open `SDK\platforms\android-4\sources` repeatedly, which doesn't exist. I'm going to try Eclipse 3.5 as the answer suggests. – Nick Oct 17 '10 at 15:30
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    Given Nick's information, I wonder if just creating `SDK\platforms\android-4\sources` would have solved the issue? or if that didn't work, I would have tried duplicating the existing `SDK\platforms\android-1.6` and renamed it `SDK\platforms\android-4` – Stephan Branczyk Oct 23 '10 at 12:51

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After a google search

I have been able to find the bug report from Eclipse.

In short:

Caution: There are known issues with the ADT plugin running with Eclipse 3.6. Please stay on 3.5 until further notice.

  • To fix it, you will have to use Eclipse 3.5 and put your project in a newly created workspace. (If you keep the workspace from Eclipse 3.6, the problem will occur even on Eclipse 3.5.)
Jean Hominal
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  • Thanks jhominal, downgrading to Galileo solved it for me. Perhaps a bit slow of me not to notice that from the Eclipse-ADT page, but they could have put it in *big red letters* or something ;) – Julian Oct 17 '10 at 14:03
  • the problem also exists on Juno – Zuuum Nov 28 '12 at 14:20
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A Work-around procedure is presented in comment#8 at this URL: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7850

Example:

I'm coding against Froyo, and my target SdkVersion is 7 (AndroidManifest.xml). So for step 1, I downloaded this file: 

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/frameworks/base/+archive/froyo-release.tar.gz

And then for step 2, I extracted the base/ directory of that .tgz file into my SDK path, which I install under /opt/android-sdk-linux_x86/. So here's the command I executed against the tgz to put everything where it goes: 

tar -vzxf base-froyo.tar.gz -C /opt/android-sdk-linux_x86/platforms/android-7/sources/ base/

The end goal appears to be to place the actual sources into the "sources" folder in the SDK tree, so that when the auto-correct goes out looking for them, they are there.

snpe60 describes it more clearly:

Comment 7 by snpe60, Oct 14, 2010 This issue is happen because the ADT classpath container have an invalid source attachment by default. It is fixed in https://review.source.android.com/16569. This change enables changing the ADT clasppath container's source attachment and disables setting invalid source attachment. Hoping it will be available in ADT 8.0.0.

Vadim Kotov
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Brad Hein
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    [Comment 19](http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=7850#c19) suggests that just creating an empty `sources` folder will fix the slowdown. – idbrii Jun 19 '11 at 01:45
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This is much better Eclipse autocompletion problem

Mikey
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here is a link for the problem you are having

http://aaarkonusurum.blogspot.com/2011/08/eclipse-intelisensein-cldrtan-yavaslgna.html

Mustafa Güven
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