Help diagnosing eclipse freezes

[Panagiotis Astithas]

Micah wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> I asked a similar question on freebsd-questions but got few responses. 
> When I start eclipse it takes 3 minutes 20 seconds to start (that's 
> longer than FreeBSD, x.org, and KDE combined!)  I might be able to work 
> with that, but the other freeze occurs during editing.  I created a 
> simple helloWorld java project, started typing "System.out.println" but 
> only got the first few characters typed before it locked up.  After 
> waiting a minute or two it comes back.  When it coems back I can 
> sometimes type five or six lines of System.out's, or sometimes only a 
> few characters, before it freezes up again.
> 
> I've turned off the automatic updates scheduler on startup (hoping to 
> shorten the startup time), and the "Auto-Activation" in the "Code 
> Assist" part of the Java Editor in preferences.  Neither has helped.
> 
> System details:
> AMD64 3000+ based, 1gb RAM with i386 version of FreeBSD.
> trisha# uname -a
> FreeBSD trisha.eidolonworld 5.4-RELEASE-p7 FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p7 #0: 
> Fri Sep  9 19:10:20 PDT 2005 
> root at trisha.eidolonworld:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/TRISHA  i386
> 
> I have the native jdk-1.4.2p7_2 and jdk-1.5.0p2_1 installed, with 
> JAVA_VERSION set to 1.4 in my user's .cshrc (I had this problem before 
> installing jdk1.5 too).  I have eclipse-3.1.1 installed (it happened on 
> 3.1_3 as well).
> 
> Any help in debugging/fixing this problem would be greatly appreciated,
> Micah

Never heard of something like that again. Do you get any errors in the 
log (workspace/.metadata/.log)? Some wild guesses:
- Do you have spell checking enabled?
- Do you have many non-default plugins installed?
- Is DNS resolving working in the system?
- Do you get similar behavior in any other Java applications?
Also, is this the default eclipse installation, or have you built it 
using WITH_FOO or WITHOUT_FOO options? Also, which version of gnome/gtk 
is this on?

Panagiotis