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Dan
Dan

Reputation: 16236

make Eclipse slimmer

I am trying to run Eclipse on my netbook to be able to develop for Android.

As you may guess, Eclipse is quite slow and it is not easy to develop effectively.

I am using Linux Ubuntu and I have still 0.5GB of free RAM...the CPU is the bottleneck.

Have you got any tip to slim Eclipse down and make it run faster?

Thanks, Dan

Upvotes: 6

Views: 2067

Answers (3)

RuntimeException
RuntimeException

Reputation: 1643

Thanks very much indeed, Eugene Kuleshov. This was helpful.

Also, to add to above list, if you do not require automatic activation of auto-complete when . is typed,

  • disable auto-activation of content assist in Window / Preferences / Java / Editor / Content Assist / Enable auto-activation (unchecked)

You can still hit Ctrl-Space to manually bring up the list of methods for that class when required.

Upvotes: 1

卢声远 Shengyuan Lu
卢声远 Shengyuan Lu

Reputation: 32004

Close unnecessary projects.

Upvotes: 4

Eugene Kuleshov
Eugene Kuleshov

Reputation: 31795

The following settings may help:

  • disable automatic build Project / Build Automatically (unchecked)
  • disable automatic refresh in Window / Preferences / General / Workspace / Refresh automatically (unchecked)
  • disable animations Window / Preferences / General / Appearance / Enable animations (unchecked)
  • disable automatic updates Window / Preferences / Install/Update / Automatic updates / Automatically find... (unchecked)
  • disable usage data collector Window / Preferences / Usage Data Collector / enable capture (unchecked)
  • turn off unnecessary decorations in Window / Preferences / General / Appearance / Label Decorations

But the best of all, get yourself some more memory, so it won't have to constantly run garbage collection.

Upvotes: 13

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