Eclipse Android SDK slow performance

Question

Im running eclipse on my windows 7 machine, 6bit with 6gb ram and core 2 duo. Im currently running Eclipse 3.6 and android 2.2 SDK Im running jdk 1.6

Im noticing that when coding and the context popups to list methods of a class, it hangs Eclipse for up to 15 seconds. This is very frustrating.

One thing to note, when Eclipse hangs, my processor is maxed out, and is being worked by a java process. So its doing something whatever it is. But frequently everytime I finish an object with a period and the context box pops up, its becoming too painful to work with.

I changed some settings in the Eclipse.ini file such as: -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 512m

Is there anything else I should look at:

Answer 1

After a google search

I have been able to find the bug report from Eclipse.

In short:

• It is a problem that arises when using Helios with ADT. As the ADT page on android.com says:

Caution: There are known issues with the ADT plugin running with Eclipse 3.6. Please stay on 3.5 until further notice.

• To fix it, you will have to use Eclipse 3.5 and put your project in a newly created workspace. (If you keep the workspace from Eclipse 3.6, the problem will occur even on Eclipse 3.5.)