[Michael Landy]

I have been using MyEclipse 4.0-4.1.1 and they all seem to have the same problem. I have a large project (hundreds of files). After using eclipse for awhile, it starts to pause when I do a cut/copy/paste. It pauses at other times, but it takes about 30 to 60 seconds before it is good to go again. It then happens over and over again sometime taking different amounts of time before responding again.

I have the heap set at 384M low and the high at 1024m. I have changed these setting around but with little effect.

What is the reason for the pausing? Garbage collection? Why does it almost always happen when I highlight some text and hit copy…or paste?

This has happened in all of the 4.x versions that I have used.

[Greg]

Try adding the following vmargs to your Eclipse shortcut.

-XX:PermSize=64M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M

If you use the MyEclipse shortcut that is created by the installer it already has these PermSize args in there as well.

[Michael Landy]

Here is what my current eclipse shortcut looks like…

C:\eclipse\eclipse.exe -vm “C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0_06\bin\javaw.exe” -vmargs -Xms384m -Xmx1024m -XX:PermSize=64M -XX:MaxPermSize=256M

Is this wrong?

[Greg]

No that shortcut looks fine. Why type of files are you copying? If you want you could disable validation for JSP/XML files while you copy and paste them around in your project. Anytime you copy and paste files it will run validation on them be default.

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