STS very slow in building workspace. "Loading *-context.xml". Network activity

[jhericks]

Was this ever resolved with anything besides the workaround? I am using m2e, which sets up my project dependencies automatically. I could go in and manually change them, but I think those changes will get stepped on whenever I add new dependencies, plus I don't think it will work with tools like JRebel.

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

We haven't got to this one yet, but did you try to disable the Spring validations (in the project preferences) to see if that helps as well maybe?

-Martin

[jhericks]

All the validators and builders that I know about are disabled:

Spring Validators.jpg
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[Martin Lippert]

Hm, okay... Can you also take a thread dump (using jps and jstack) at the time the build is performing so badly? That would be of great help!

-Martin

[jhericks]

I run jps command while it is doing "Loading x-y-zContext.xml" and it does not return anything (except "Jps"). I'm on Mac OSX (Lion) running STS 2.9.2.RELEASE.

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

"jps" on the command line does not work for you? Hm, that is strange... When I run "jps" on my Mac, it returns a list of process IDs, some of them with a name, some without. When I then guess the right process ID for STS and run "jstack <pid>" with that process ID, it produces the thread dumps. Are you sure there is no process ID in front of the resulting "Jps" output? And maybe one more for the STS process?

-Martin

[jhericks]

That's right. When I was doing "jps" it just returns something like:

20555 Jps

I was starting STS from my doc at the bottom. Today I've started it from the command line and I am able to get at least one other line from jps, so I'll post the jstack when it happens again. (Of course, when I posted the first time, it was happening constantly - now not so much.)

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

Interesting, that jps doesn't show the process ID when you are starting STS from the dock, that doesn't happen for me. But anyway, I am looking forward to your thread dumps for more details on this.

Thanks,
Martin

[jhericks]

I've tried to attach the jstack output, but it is 50763 bytes which exceeds the limit for attachments (or at least attachments of .txt files). What is the best way to include it here?

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

Can you add it to this issue (with a short comment when you took the thread dump, etc.)
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-2634

That would be awesome!

Thanks,
-Martin