Eclipse plugins are pretty slow, but which one? A way to measure plugin performance?

Question

Hi @ stackoverflow'ers,

I have been using eclipse over the years and I like the IDE, but in the past eclipse slows me down a lot. I have no idea if this is an eclipse, a plugin, or even an OS problem.

I only feel the impact of performance. For instance:

• I provided a bunch of Eclipse 1.25 GB, anyway my eclipse eats up a bunch during the day.
• Using the content, it sometimes happens that an eclipse freezes within 5-10 seconds.
• When typing (I also assume that the help of the content) sometimes also freezes and waits for a few seconds
• Once, an eclipse freezes altogether, so nothing happens with the IDE.

I work under Ubuntu 14.04, but Windows colleagues have the same problem. So it probably doesn’t depend on the OS, but I’m not quite sure.

Now the question is for me:

• Is there a way to track plugins for performance affecting the developer?
• Is there a way to track the performance of certain plugins? (jvisualvm seems insufficient)
• Is there a way to track all plugins and the execution of plugins involved in content support?
• Is there a way to temporarily disable plugins during eclipse execution to dig up to a responsible plugin?

Hope someone can help me out of the dark

Answer 1

Go to the window → Settings → Startup and shutdown

De select unwanted features. This will reduce the number of plug-ins that will be activated during startup. It took me too long to launch eclipse, and after that it started in a few seconds, and the performance is good too. Give it a try.