In Eclipse Neon I started getting a dubious background job called "Analytics Ping", if I build (ie. save a file!) or synchronise with eGIT. I believe this is due to GWT (2.8.0). It appears to be poorly implemented in that:
1) Other background jobs queue unnecessarily behind it (it prevents me from updating/committing code!).
2) Like many other background jobs in Eclipse, it doesn't respond to cancellation requests.
Thus, if it has problems "pinging" back, it prevents me from working (And why does it need to ping for every file save?!).
Does anybody know how to switch this off for these versions? Thank you.
In Eclipse Preferences > GWT, disable "Share anonymous usage statistics of the GWT Eclipse Plugin..."
I turned Off the tick mark here.
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I have had this problems for a couple of times but usually could solve it by an update. However, this fix does not work for me anymore.
Actually, two problems here:
The minor one: I have osX 10.8.3 and Eclipse Juno (M20130204-1200) installed. Since a good amount of time, it takes eclipse ~ 4-5 minutes to start up for the first time after the system start. Once it was closed and is re-opend again, it starts up quick. I think this problem came since apple started to mess around with the JRE? Does anybody also experienced this delay? Could it be that one of the installed plugins checks for updates and causes the delay?
The major one: after eclipse is fully up & running, I can not open .py files anymore. When I open my pydev project (btw. pydev 2.7.3), eclipse freezes and I need to kill the whole thing and restart. -> I can not use it for python coding anymore, which is my primary task...
Suggestions? Re-install eclipse maybe?
Thank you for suggestions,
El
Can't really comment on #1, but for #2, can you try attaching jvisualvm to see what's going on there? (and create a thread-dump and post it somewhere so that I can take a look at it).
I'd ask you to create a bug-report for that, but the new tracker is still not up (I hope I'm able to put it up right after the funding at http://igg.me/at/liclipse is finished).
The problem was resolved by following these steps. They essentially disable one
JRE.http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5559?viewlocale=en_US
I'm a relatively new developer who uses the Force.com IDE on eclipse.
What are some things I could do to avoid this happening in the future? I heard that using Eclipse might not be the efficient way of doing things in general... but I'm very used to it.
Any hints/advice/guidance would be appreciated.
Was it a VF page that timed out? You need to figure out what's taking so long. Do you have an infinite loop, or inefficient loops that are chewing up thousands of statements executed?
Set up a log under Setup > Monitoring > Debug Logs and then run your script again. Check out the profiling and governor limit information at the bottom. It should give you an idea of where time is being spent.
If you are talking about callout then you can set higher timeout.
In Eclipse can be another type of timeout - during saving files. If you mean this then you should save file(s) one more time.
I'm working with SF for half a year and I have been using Eclipse for developing stuff. I can say that there are no problems with using it.
The issue resolved itself when I migrated to the stand-alone Force.com IDE.
Sometimes Eclipse takes a really long time to do stuff. I might tab out to another application, get distracted by web sites with names that rhyme with "flak clover show", and completely forget that I had something to pay attention to. It happens daily.
Is there any way to make Eclipse play a sound (acceptable alternative: bounce the dock icon in OS X) when a long-running tasks is completed? I'm thinking specifically of things that show up in the Progress view, like deploying to Tomcat:
With Eclipse WTP, you can enable audio feedback for several server-related events in workspace preferences / Server / Audio panel.
You can always submit a bug (which can be a feature not a real bug) to eclipse's bugzilla. It would definitely be considered.
Open source contribution does not mean you need to contribute code, you can also contribute by submitting bugs or ideas.
I'm using PyDev in Eclipse as my Python editor. It's fine in terms of feature set. Everything works fine except for one very annoying thing:
Code completion itself works fast. When I press Alt+Space, the window pops out almost instantly and all the options are there. The option at the top is selected. Then comes the trouble. The detailed description won't appear until about 5-10 seconds. All this time CPU is working at maximum load and the interface is not responding. All the processor is consumed by the Eclipse Java process (the spawned Python process seems idle). Then a yellow window pops up, and all it contains is just a Python code of a selected function/variable. All consecutive details are displayed instantly. The procedure repeats when I close the completion window (for example by accepting one of the options and asking for completion again). This drives me crazy.
I've tried so far:
creating a whole new workspace,
creating an Eclipse/PyDev project from scratch,
tweaking JVM to make sure it has loads of memory,
making sure the right JVM is chosen (the latest Oracle JVM available),
making sure Python process communicates freely with the Java instance (I read about possible problems with that, but it seems not to be the issue).
making sure all the installed plugins are up to date.
The version I use is Eclipse Helios, because the last time I checked certain extensions weren't yet ported to the latest one.
Has anyone observed a similar issue? Was anyone able to get around it? General ideas on how to debug it and file a sensible bug report possibly? Other things worth checking for.
Any workaround less drastic than turning completion off completly?
Thanks!
EDIT:
I've also noticed a problem with a similar popup window in HTML/CSS editor. It looked somewhat similar (a yellow window, with some text inside) and it also took ages to display. Don't really know if that is related, but could be.
EDIT(2):
Ok, No I've started with a fresh install of the newest Eclipse Indigo, without any additional plugins apart from PyDev and the issue remains. Seems like I'll have to look for a new IDE.
What version of Java are you using?
If you are on Windows 7, later versions of Java (I think 6+) will default to IPv6.
This is probably causing the problem as Python maybe wanting IPv4.
Anyway, since I had this problem I tried disabling
PyLint
Code Analysis
but it was still hanging.
Pal's answer about "ipv4 utilization" triggered my memory about another problem I had solved by "preferring" IPv4.
See http://docs.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/guide/net/ipv6_guide/
What you want to do is to edit your eclipse.ini and add "-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true" in the vmargs section
-startup
plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.2.0.v20110502.jar
...
-vmargs
-...
-Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true
...
I no longer get hangs.
Is there any chance you can provide the code that's making that happen (and add it to a bug report see: http://pydev.org/about.html for links)?
I use PyDev daily with some very large projects and don't have that problem, so, it may be some specific construct or scenario in your code -- or maybe you just haven't given Eclipse enough memory (which would make the garbage collector work much more), in which case, take a look at: What are the best JVM settings for Eclipse? (in specific, raise your -Xmx flag, although you can probably use the other tips there too).
If you can't provide a reproducible scenario, the other choice would be getting a profiler (i.e.: YourKit java profiler has a 15 days free which would help in this case), running that use-case in the profiler and passing a snapshot of what's happening in this situation (if that's the case, please open a bug report at pydev.org and I can help you there).
I got this from pydev.org FAQs and it works fine for me.
When I do a code-completion, PyDev hangs, what can I do?
PyDev does most of its things in the java side, but some information can only be gotten from the python side (mainly builtins), so, in order to get that info, PyDev creates a shell and communicates with it through sockets.
The main problems when that happens are:
There's a firewall blocking the communication to the shell
In Linux, some kernels do not allow ipv4 utilization, which may make PyDev fail.
To enable it, do: echo 0 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/bindv6only
The timeout to connect is too smal.
It depends upon the "Timeout to connect to shell" in the code-completion preferences (window > preferences > PyDev > Code completion)
If nothing works, please report a bug (also, check if there is anything on the error log (window > show view > PDE Runtime > Error log) and on the eclipse '.log', which is located at the .metadata folder of the workspace location.
Is there any way to save my code folding in eclipse?
It's horrible to scroll trough my entire UI declaration. (And yes, I googled it! :)
The question is very similar to Is there a way to collapse all code blocks in Eclipse? .
I'm re-posting my answer there here.
The question is a bit old, but let me add a different approach. In addition to the above hot-key and utility approaches, there are default preference settings that can be toggled.
As of Eclipse Galileo (and definitely in my Eclipse Version: Indigo Service Release 2 Build id: 20120216-1857) language specific preferences can open up new files to edit which are already collapsed or expanded.
Here is a link to Eclipse Galileo online docs showing the feature for C/C++: http://help.eclipse.org/galileo/index.jsp?topic=/org.eclipse.cdt.doc.user/reference/cdt_u_c_editor_folding.htm .
In my Eclipse Indigo I can open the Folding Preferences window via : menu/ Window/ Preferences/ Java/ Editor/ Folding and set all options on so I can open files by default that are completely collapsed.
Amongst other things, Mylyn allows you to fold/hide content and persist the state.
Mylyn monitors your work activity to identify relevant information, and uses this task context to focus the user interface on the task-at-hand. This puts the information you need at your fingertips and improves productivity by reducing searching, scrolling, and navigation. By making task context explicit Mylyn also facilitates multitasking, planning, reusing past efforts, and sharing expertise.
Once Mylyn is enabled it will start folding/hiding the content. If you have an active task (can use a local task repository) the state should be persisted between sessions. Alternatively you can attach the state to the task (sorry don't have Eclipse to hand to check the exact method to do this) then retrieve it. This is useful if you are sharing tasks with others.
I know this isn't exactly what you were asking, but this was really helpful for me:
Ctrl+Numpad_Multiply can also be used
to expand all
Ctrl+Shift+Numpad_Divide is bound to
collapse all
Ctrl+Numpad_Divide toggles folding on
and off
(Taken from this post: Is there a keyboard shortcut in Eclipse to fold the current method/block? )
This, and plenty other issues of Eclipse made me switch to JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA. It's worth sneaking a peek at it if you find Eclipse's performance annoying, need more control on your code formatting or if you just want to have your code foldings persisted.
I'm not using it for too long now but it seems pretty handy for anyone developing in the Java, Android or Scala corner.