It's long been my opinion that the minimum development environment should be 8 GB, quad core. And, ideally, solid-state disks.
Definitely *NOT* a 5200 RPM or slower hard drive! Ever! I run on a 4GB, dual core laptop, SATA 7200 RPM hard drive. But I've also run on 8 GB, quad core, and know what a difference it makes. I figure there's no point in replacing my computer until I can hit that benchmark. This was the benchmark about 4 years ago. But it makes a HUGE difference what else you are running. Here are some of the worst offenders: * GMail -- any browser. * Firefox -- any content * Eclipse -- don't open more stuff than you need. And you can experiment with giving it more memory, so it doesn't have to GC quite as often. But that makes the GCs it does do touch somewhat more pages. Also, make sure your hard drive is defragmented, and that you clean up your temp directories from time to time. A huge temp directory can make a lot of things really beat on the disk as they do trivial things with tiny temp files. It's surprisingly easy to get a huge temp directory over time. And finally: Pay attention to antivirus and online backup software configuration. You do NOT want your antivirus software looking at every file you touch in your build tree. You do NOT want your backup software instantly backing up every intermediate file created during the build process. Still, insufficient memory is the biggest cause of poor development environment performance in my experience. Eclipse does a huge amount of stuff for you, but it requires RAM to hold all that parse data, etc. Closing editor buffers, projects you don't actively need (like the demo project!), etc. can significantly reduce Eclipse's memory usage. On Jul 30, 4:22 am, Mystique <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm on Win7 32-bit with 4GB RAM. Why my Eclipse always become so slow > until it take so long to response to my mouse or keyboard. I have to > force terminate it, restart and use it for like 20min and repeat the > same thing again... > > Anyone facing this or have experience dealing with it? > > Regards. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
