[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Have you tried increasing the amount of memory available to eclipse? If not edit eclipse.ini and change the last line to increase the memory available... -Xms40m -Xmx1024m Cheers, Mark -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Have you tried increasing some of the memory allocations for Eclipse up front in your ini file? It maybe sounds counter intuitive but giving Eclipse a little more memory will save some of the disk swapping and I/O is where the real slow down is for any desktop application in my experience. Basic memory management configuration -Xms512m -- minimum memory size for pile and heap -Xmx1024m -- maximum memory size for pile and heap -XX:MaxPermSize=512m -- maximum memory size for storing permanent JVM objects. Read more about this statement on the Eclipse website. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
I personally do not see a slowdown could this because dualcore proc and about 6 gigs of ram -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Runs pretty well out of the box on my laptop -- 2MHz dual CPU with 4G RAM, running Vista. Not lightning fast, mind you, but certainly not painfully slow (though emulator startup the very first time can be benchmarked with a calendar). I'm guessing that having enough RAM is important. On Sep 19, 6:07 am, Neilz neilhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm sure like many of you, I use Eclipse for my development. The problem with it is, I find it incredibly memory hungry... it often takes ages to load up, when I save a file it hangs for a while (saying Building workspace in the bottom right hand corner), and is just generally slow. I wondered if anyone had any tips for streamlining it for Android. I don't use it for anything else (if necessary, I will install a separate instance for general Java stuff) so I can't help thinking there are lots of modules and stuff I could get rid of which may help it run more smoothly. Anyone have some tips on this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
I hope you have 2 Ghz cpu, and not Mhz :P hehe Anyway, to the OP, if you have a large project then the Build Automatically feature of Eclipse might be quite frustrating sometimes (since every time you save a file, the project is compiled). You might try disabling it (by selecting Project -- Build Automatically). Then you can build your project manually. Hope it helps, Yuvi On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 2:04 PM, DanH danhi...@ieee.org wrote: Runs pretty well out of the box on my laptop -- 2MHz dual CPU with 4G RAM, running Vista. Not lightning fast, mind you, but certainly not painfully slow (though emulator startup the very first time can be benchmarked with a calendar). I'm guessing that having enough RAM is important. On Sep 19, 6:07 am, Neilz neilhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I'm sure like many of you, I use Eclipse for my development. The problem with it is, I find it incredibly memory hungry... it often takes ages to load up, when I save a file it hangs for a while (saying Building workspace in the bottom right hand corner), and is just generally slow. I wondered if anyone had any tips for streamlining it for Android. I don't use it for anything else (if necessary, I will install a separate instance for general Java stuff) so I can't help thinking there are lots of modules and stuff I could get rid of which may help it run more smoothly. Anyone have some tips on this? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- YuviDroid Check out Launch-X http://android.yuvalsharon.net/launchx.php (a widget to quickly access your favorite apps and contacts!) http://android.yuvalsharon.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Neilz wrote: The problem with it is, I find it incredibly memory hungry... it often takes ages to load up, when I save a file it hangs for a while (saying Building workspace in the bottom right hand corner), and is just generally slow. Building the workspace requires a lot of disk I/O operations. If your HDD is slow or your system needs to swap out memory this can take ages. Using a SSD and enough RAM Eclipse is lightning fast. Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
Re: [android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Using 64bit win7 with 2Gb RAm + high rpm hardisk is really fast..never had that problem.. On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 7:15 PM, Robert Kochem rob...@mailueberfall.dewrote: Neilz wrote: The problem with it is, I find it incredibly memory hungry... it often takes ages to load up, when I save a file it hangs for a while (saying Building workspace in the bottom right hand corner), and is just generally slow. Building the workspace requires a lot of disk I/O operations. If your HDD is slow or your system needs to swap out memory this can take ages. Using a SSD and enough RAM Eclipse is lightning fast. Robert -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.comandroid-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -- Kind Regards - Lorensius W. L. T - - http://www.londatiga.net - -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Ah, well I guess it's just my PC build then. It's about 3 years old, and until the other day I had 3Gb Ram, but one of those fried and now I have just 1Gb. But to be honest the extra 2Gb barely made any difference, so I guess the overall motherboard/ processor spec just isn't good enough. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Being memory-bound and being disk-I/O-bound are nearly the same thing, since Windows can use extra memory for I/O caching. Being short of both memory and I/O speed is a fatal combination. On Sep 19, 9:18 am, Neilz neilhorn...@gmail.com wrote: Ah, well I guess it's just my PC build then. It's about 3 years old, and until the other day I had 3Gb Ram, but one of those fried and now I have just 1Gb. But to be honest the extra 2Gb barely made any difference, so I guess the overall motherboard/ processor spec just isn't good enough. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
I don't find it too bad on a 6 year old box running ubuntu linux with 2.5gb of ram, though disabling auto build is a good idea on large projects. When I first installed it pre-android I had the wrong java runtime installation and you could literally watch it meter out keystrokes. I downloaded the recommended jdk, used its runtime, and eclipse became useable. Neilz wrote: Ah, well I guess it's just my PC build then. It's about 3 years old, and until the other day I had 3Gb Ram, but one of those fried and now I have just 1Gb. But to be honest the extra 2Gb barely made any difference, so I guess the overall motherboard/ processor spec just isn't good enough. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
[android-developers] Re: Using Eclipse - can it get faster?
Yes on two points: 1) Not just for Android, but with just about any use of Eclipse you want to turn off auto build. I probably did that subconsciously when I set up Android. 2) There are several different versions of Eclipse and several different versions of the JDK. I used what seemed to be recommended for Eclipse versioin, plus my existing JDK, and it worked out. No doubt there are other versions that aren't so good. You can have several different versions of Eclipse on your box (I have at least 3) without them fighting, so best to pick one specifically for Android vs trying to use one already installed for another purpose, and if you suspect you have the wrong version it's not that hard to try another. On Sep 19, 12:36 pm, Chris Stratton cs07...@gmail.com wrote: I don't find it too bad on a 6 year old box running ubuntu linux with 2.5gb of ram, though disabling auto build is a good idea on large projects. When I first installed it pre-android I had the wrong java runtime installation and you could literally watch it meter out keystrokes. I downloaded the recommended jdk, used its runtime, and eclipse became useable. Neilz wrote: Ah, well I guess it's just my PC build then. It's about 3 years old, and until the other day I had 3Gb Ram, but one of those fried and now I have just 1Gb. But to be honest the extra 2Gb barely made any difference, so I guess the overall motherboard/ processor spec just isn't good enough. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
