Eclipse stop background refresh

Question

Eclipse 3.7

This is not related to How do I stop Eclipse from refreshing some dir? as I am okay with eclipse project refresh on startup.

I have my project sources in a network drive (I need to use Eclipse in Windows and Run the code in Linux). Periodically Eclipse freezes and I am fairly sure this is because Windows is frantically trying to access the NAS area and it is slow. I would not be changing the source files outside of Eclipse so I don't need features in eclipse such as refreshing a file when it is changed in background.

Questions

• Are there any known ways of speeding this up? Suggestions like disabling local history, refreshes etc?
• I also have a feeling that this freezing is because Eclipse tries to actively detect if files are changed in a file system and when you do that over several files it causes delays (I can be wrong on this). Is there any way to disable this? (In IntelliJ I could do a background refresh)

Answer 1

Look at Preferences / General / Workspace and see if Refresh using native hooks or polling and Refresh on access are checked. If so try turning them off.