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I am using Eclipse for Java development. I have a number of plugins (Maven, Subversive, JBoss reverse Engineering tools, etc), and the system seems to hang fairly consistently, to the point where it can be 10-20 seconds from a mouse click until it responds. I have given it a gig of memory in the configuration, and it is not even using half of that. When it hangs, it completely pegs one of the processors, and I see large numbers of Page File Deltas.

Is there any way to see what is happening inside Eclipse? Which plugin could be causing the problem?

I believe (although I am not positive) I am running Eclipse 3.5.2. I am running on Windows XP, SP 2 or 3 (I do not manage the machine, my company does, so I am not positive how up to date it is).

aperkins
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    To give an example, I opened up the help->about dialog to check the version while writing this post. When I hit "OK" on it, it took right around 14 seconds (rough guesstimate, I was counting without a stopwatch) for Eclipse to become "responsive" again (i.e. repaint when something stopped covering it up) – aperkins Dec 02 '10 at 19:49

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First, the one plugin that can help investigation this would be MAT (Memory Analyzer).
Full tutorial at Vogella.

Second, make sure to use an optimized eclipse.ini launched with the latest JDK (6u22) and check if the issue persists then.

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  • Thank you very much for the response. I did change my .ini to be closer to the optimized ini you linked, and that helped. I am going to install the MAT addon/plugin sometime today. My empirical testing evidence suggests that there is a problem with Subversive, but hopefully MAT will make that more clear. – aperkins Dec 06 '10 at 17:48