make Eclipse slimmer

Question

I am trying to run Eclipse on my netbook to be able to develop for Android.

As you may guess, Eclipse is quite slow and it is not easy to develop effectively.

I am using Linux Ubuntu and I have still 0.5GB of free RAM...the CPU is the bottleneck.

Have you got any tip to slim Eclipse down and make it run faster?

Thanks, Dan

Answer 1

The following settings may help:

• disable automatic build Project / Build Automatically (unchecked)
• disable automatic refresh in Window / Preferences / General / Workspace / Refresh automatically (unchecked)
• disable animations Window / Preferences / General / Appearance / Enable animations (unchecked)
• disable automatic updates Window / Preferences / Install/Update / Automatic updates / Automatically find... (unchecked)
• disable usage data collector Window / Preferences / Usage Data Collector / enable capture (unchecked)
• turn off unnecessary decorations in Window / Preferences / General / Appearance / Label Decorations

But the best of all, get yourself some more memory, so it won't have to constantly run garbage collection.

Answer 2

Close unnecessary projects.