Running update in STS is very slow

[Martin Lippert]

Hey Matt!

I checked back with the p2 team at Eclipse and it is correct that Eclipse/STS is trying to download the compositeContent.jar URL first. But it should not stall on it, but instead fail fast and continue to look for the XML version of the composite update site. Since the access doesn't cause problems from your browser or on my machine, I am still a bit clueless why this is causing problems for some of our users.

What version of STS are you running? And what Eclipse version is used under the hood? Can you check that?

-Martin

[mattharr]

Hi,

I installed STS at home over the weekend, and didn't get the same problem (I'm using 2.8.1, which is Eclipse 3.7). So I think it must be something here.

I had a look at the traffic with wireshark yesterday, and it looks like STS makes a call to for HEAD for the compositeContent jar, this gets an ACK back from the server, but then no content. The same call with a GET (from the browser) seems to work fine. So I'm having a chat with our network guys here - maybe one of the proxies/routers is deciding I don't need to know about the HEAD response - which as we discussed should be a 403, but seems to be being chopped I think.

Hopefully I'll be able to hunt down the issue - but I think it is looking network related here.

Cheers,

Matt

[mattharr]

Well, good news. They've put an exception rule on our proxy here, and it all looks to be running fine now. So, sorry for the hassle - it was a proxy config issue!

Thanks for all your help,

Matt

[Martin Lippert]

Hey Matt!

Glad to hear you found the network issue with the proxy.

Cheers,
-Martin

[Alexey Pomelov]

Hello.

I have same problems while installing anything into the STS. I'm using sts 3.1.0 based on eclipse 3.8.1 and it constantly runs download tasks for
http://dist.springsource.org/release...eArtifacts.xml
http://dist.springsource.org/release...iteContent.xml
http://dist.springsource.org/release.../artifacts.xml
I think download fails but after a timeout (about five minutes).
This does not disturb me when I'm just developing, but it blocks "calculating dependencies" and download start for each plugin that I try to install. So installation of new plugin takes about 15-30 minutes

[Alexey Pomelov]

Problem seems to be solved by switching off the Kaspersky anti-virus =( Sorry..

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

Glad to hear you found a solution for this problem and thanks for letting us know!!!

Cheers,
-Martin