Today I tried to download EGit plug-in from eclipse.org, and waited an hour and nothing happened. I tried three more times, waited for three hours and stopped.
Then I tried to clone egit from the repository developers, but it began to clone at a rate of 5kbps.
Then I thought maybe something wrong with my Eclipse, and decided to download a new one. Eclipse main site opened with a super-slow speed (although bigger than 5kbps). I'm just afraid to download the installer at this speed.
Can anybody repoduce it? What should I do?
You're right, Eclipse updating can be horribly slow, regardless of connection speed.
From what I can tell, this is because it checks a whole bunch of slow servers looking for updates every time you try and install something. You can disable this behaviour in the "Install New Software" dialog by unchecking the "Contact all update sites" option. I find that things go an awful lot faster then.
I am exepriencing the same problem. I am developing a plug-in that depends on a feature on the eclipse site. The downloading of that feature takes sometimes up to 30 minutes, even though it is quite small.
This is probably based on eclipse servers which we can't influence. There are a couple bugs opened for this or similar issues. Feel free to comment on them to maybe get them fixed:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=331634
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=162101
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=189380
and so on .. there are a bunch of those.
Check your firewall. In my case disabling McAfee made it run smooth again.
I found some invalid links in Install/Update under Preferences, basically if you have any sort of invalid links which you may have added trusting in them to be update sites, it causes all downloads to be terribly slow. Go to Preferences>Install/Update and delete all your custom links that you added, you can specifically check the error log to tell you which links are invalid by running Update.
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I recently updated eclipse to the latest Oxygen version.
I don't really mind much if I am not using the latest version of each software, but whenever eclipse prompts me to update something, I go ahead and accept it as I trust it knows what it's doing. Since I have some plugins installed and since I've had eclipse for quite some time, I have a long list of software sites listed in my Install/Update preference pane.
Lately some of these sites seem to have stopped responding, so I removed them from the list. Upon clicking on help > check for updates however, they simply come back to the list.
Could someone explain to me why this keeps happening and why I am unable to control what eclipse is contacting?
An installed feature can contribute an Update Site if they want. Your best bet is to leave them there, but disabled.
http://help.eclipse.org/oxygen/topic/org.eclipse.platform.doc.isv/reference/misc/feature_manifest.html?cp=2_1_5_20
Is there a way to identify what's going on with Eclipse when a file is saved?
My eclipse runs extremely slow (takes close to 3 minutes to save a file). Simple addition of a space in a file and save, it keeps saying 'Updating Navigator Content Viewer' and 'Remote System Explorer Operation' and simply freezes.
I am running on a powerful system with 16 gigs of ram and assigned 1 gig for eclipse. The way it performs is simple unacceptable and planning to switch all my projects to NetBeans rather than wasting hours on save.
Any hints on fixing this are appreciated.
Finally resolved the issue by getting rid of Eclipse.
Moved all my projects to NetBeans 8.2. Its a big relief to see my projects getting saved in a split second.
Coming to Eclipse, it is powerful and exceptional on all aspects other than the slowness during save. However, this frustrating issue alone makes me rate Eclipse 1 (may be 0) on a scale of 10. Cannot expect a developer to wait for 2 minutes to save a file (on a 16 gig system, with 4 gigs assigned to Eclipse) which would drag the productivity drastically.
Looks like this issue is not something new as I have seen many posts on various forums regarding the same. I don't understand how Eclipse never gave a thought on this slowness issue.
First you should try to look at this post so:
Check if it is the latest version (I personally run Neon 4.6 and it takes about 2 minutes to parse and save a 55MB file)
Check your JDK/JRE
You should also try to see if it doesn't come from your drive...
If you still have the problem, I suggest you look at the other Eclipse versions (Mars...)
I am trying to run my projects in Eclipse, whenever I used to run any program a window appear and it shows that project is launching and building.
This never happened before. In fact, it was working very okay an hour before but now, even for old created project it showing this and not moving ahead.
Is this a general thing happened in eclipse as I haven't seen this before.
I want to get out of this to move ahead and to run the project.
The Launcher looks like this :
The progress Bar is also not moving ahead if it's building the project.
It's definitely normal to see; there's times I'll see it two or three times in a day. It shows up if the launching process is waiting on anything or is expected to take more than a couple seconds.
In your case, it seems to be stuck on "Building workspace," which happens when you open Eclipse. The more projects you have in Eclipse and the more sections of workspace you have (groups of tabs), the longer it takes to build your workspace. So I'm going to wager a guess that you tried to launch a project within the first minute or two of Eclipse being open. Am I right?
If that's the case, just wait a bit, and watch the lower right corner (where it says "Launching Clock" in your screenshot). When it shows it's stopped trying to do start-up tasks, you should be good to go.
If Eclsipse had been open for a while, then perhaps Eclipse is busy with other junk and calling it "Building workspace." Maybe it's having a hard time understanding what to do with one of your projects, so check for compiler errors. You can also try to "clean" your projects (Project -> Clean).
If that also fails...hmmm...I'm sure there's other options before you get to this point, but you might need to re-install Eclipse. I suppose there's a chance that in the deep dark corners of Eclipse, a file was corrupted, causing Eclipse to hang on a task that requires a missing/bad file. But before you go this far, make you get second or third opinions, because I might be missing some simpler cause of your Eclipse hanging than what I've listed already.
I found the solution.
I don't know what was the error and why it was displaying the Launcher window and stuck there. But, I forcefully stopped eclipse using Task Manager and then restarted it.
When restarted it took few minutes (more than usual time) and I was done with it. now it's working okay.
Re-installation of Eclipse also worked but i tried this before re-installing or upgrading.
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
When I update my local working copy of an SVN repository in Eclipse using the Subversive plugin it isnt bringing any new files which have been added to the SVN repository. It thinks that the local working copy is up to date and if I ask Eclipse to update it it just says no further changes.
Anyone got any ideas why this is happening?
I just discovered this nasty problem too. It might be related to this bug report.
Deleting the entire tree worked for me too, but that hardly seems like a satisfactory solution. What scares me more is wondering how I will notice that a certain file didn't get updated, if this happens again.
Thanks to the above bug report, this worked for me (eclipse 3.7):
Team/Update to Version...
v Update to HEAD revision (=default)
Depth: Full recursive (default is Working copy)
v Change working copy to specified depth (default is un-checked)
O Ignore externals (=default)
v Allow unversioned obstructs (=default)
I do not know if that fixes the problem permanently. At least it seems a faster solution rather than full checkout.
Sorry I don't have a solution to this problem, but I have it as well, and I don't have enough cred to comment.
Here is a thread describing the same issue:
http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php?t=msg&th=14710&start=0&
A "workaround" I found to be successful is deleting the relevant tree (of course, backing it up first) and performing an "update". I am prompted to recreate missing files, which bring the un-added files from the repo as well. Obviously this is a terrible solution, but it does work.
Another interesting effect to note is that it is one-sided. The other machine on the repo is perfectly fine with updating new files.
I have noticed Subversive to be a bit problematic. While this isn't a direct solution to your problem, may I recommend using TortoiseSVN (assuming you're in Windows). It works excellently, has more power than Subversive, and is integrated with your shell making it a smooth transition.