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What does "Computing additional info" mean?

Eclipse Helios periodically starts running a job which displays "Computing additional info". During this time, Eclipse is very sluggish, bordering on unusable. What does this job do? Can I shut it off?

I just hope that someone in the JDT team comes to sense and gets rid of it, make it go faster, or at the very least change it to something meaningful.

A: 

It's computing/caching some information that will make some operations (like auto suggestion) faster.

I can only suggest several things:

  • if you installed Mylyn, try to disable the Task-Focused Content Assist
  • check the -Xms and -Xmx parameter in eclipse.ini
  • try to stop the auto build
nanda  2010-03-12 11:31:55
Frankly, I'd rather have auto-suggestion take a little longer every time, than have to suffer a complete block now and then.
JesperE  2010-03-12 11:43:55
+1  A: 
Aaron Digulla  2010-03-12 11:32:05
The bug reported seems definitely related. I'll try (1) and (2), but (3) and (4) I already have.
JesperE  2010-03-12 11:51:29

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