How to change value of 'Read timeout' of Eclipse's Update Manager?

Question

How to change value of 'Read timeout' of Eclipse's Update Manager?

I have slow internet connection and I cannot install any plugin, because Eclipse's Update manager throws me exception:

Transfer Exception

java.net.SocketTimeoutException: Read timed out
at java.net.SocketInputStream.socketRead0(Native Method)
at java.net.SocketInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read1(Unknown Source)
at java.io.BufferedInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.ContentLengthInputStream.read(ContentLengthInputStream.java:170)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.AutoCloseInputStream.read(AutoCloseInputStream.java:108)
at java.io.FilterInputStream.read(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.httpclient.AutoCloseInputStream.read(AutoCloseInputStream.java:127)
at org.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer$1.performFileTransfer(AbstractRetrieveFileTransfer.java:140)
at org.eclipse.ecf.filetransfer.FileTransferJob.run(FileTransferJob.java:73)
at org.eclipse.core.internal.jobs.Worker.run(Worker.java:55) 

Answer 1

As Frank mentioned you can set the timeout options in the eclipse.ini, here's the documentation.

"use -DpropName=propValue as a VM argument to the Java VM, set the desired property in the config.ini file in the appropriate configuration area"

I set the following to get round my timeout issue:

-Dorg.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.closeTimeout=3000
-Dorg.eclipse.ecf.provider.filetransfer.retrieve.readTimeout=3000

Answer 2

I got the error a lot with version 3.6, but adding the following line to the eclipse.ini helped me a lot:

-Dsun.net.client.defaultReadTimeout=30000

Add it right after the line with -vmargs