STS 3.0 (Really, Eclipse Juno) is slow...

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

Thanks a lot for providing the thread dumps. I looked at them and it seems like there is some issue with the new e4 UI platform going on. Can you download and install the STS 3.1.0 distribution that is based on Eclipse 3.8 to see if the problem goes away using that version? It is available from the STS download page and contains exactly the same feature set (just uses the older UI implementation from Eclipse). My hope is that it solves the issue you are seeing.

HTH,
Martin

[kirenpillay]

Hey!

Thanks a lot for providing the thread dumps. I looked at them and it seems like there is some issue with the new e4 UI platform going on. Can you download and install the STS 3.1.0 distribution that is based on Eclipse 3.8 to see if the problem goes away using that version? It is available from the STS download page and contains exactly the same feature set (just uses the older UI implementation from Eclipse). My hope is that it solves the issue you are seeing.

HTH,
Martin

Hi Martin,

I am experiencing the same issue on STS 3.1.0. I am running Java 7, on ubuntu 12.04 Linux 64bit.

Regards
Kiren

[kirenpillay]

Also, my CPU goes to 100% when this happens.

[DanMonroe]

Hi Martin,

I've also experienced "lag" after working for a while during the day. I'm currently using the nightly builds hoping that it would be resolved but still no luck. Restarting fixes it for a while but it the issue returns.

My observation is that everything will be fine until after I start doing a few File Searches containing some text and searching files in my workspace matching this pattern: *.java, *.js*, *.properties, *.tag, *.xml, *.css In my project, this is searching roughly 5500 files.

I just switched to the "Classic" theme and disabled animates tonight (Preferences>Gneral>Appearance) and have yet to see any lag. I'll report back in a couple days to let you know if switching to the Classic theme helps with the lag.

Dan

Here's some info:
System76, i7 2.4Ghz, 16GB ram, SSD, Linux Ubuntu 12.

Spring Tool Suite
Version: 3.1.0.CI-B884637
Build Id: 201210240250

Some config info:
com.atlassian.connector.eclipse.branding.ui.isOnly JiraInstalled=false
eclipse.application=org.eclipse.ui.ide.workbench
eclipse.buildId=3.1.0.201210240250-CI-B884637-e42
eclipse.commands=-os
linux
-ws
gtk
-arch
x86_64
-showsplash
-launcher
/home/dmonroe/Applications/springsource/sts-3.0.0.RELEASE/STS
-name
STS
--launcher.library
/home/dmonroe/Applications/springsource/sts-3.0.0.RELEASE//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_64_1.1. 200.v20120522-1813/eclipse_1502.so
-startup
/home/dmonroe/Applications/springsource/sts-3.0.0.RELEASE//plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.3.0.v20120522-1813.jar
--launcher.overrideVmargs
-exitdata
4b78011
-product
org.springsource.sts.ide
-vm
/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_29/bin/java
eclipse.home.location=file:/home/dmonroe/Applications/springsource/sts-3.0.0.RELEASE/
eclipse.launcher=/home/dmonroe/Applications/springsource/sts-3.0.0.RELEASE/STS
eclipse.launcher.name=STS
eclipse.p2.data.area=@config.dir/../p2/
eclipse.p2.profile=DefaultProfile
eclipse.product=org.springsource.sts.ide
eclipse.startTime=1351131787919
eclipse.vm=/usr/lib/jvm/jdk1.6.0_29/bin/java
eclipse.vmargs=-Xverify:none
-Djava.library.path=/usr/lib/jni
-DCATALINA_HOME='/usr/local/tomcat'
-Xmn194m
-Xms1024m
-Xmx2100m
-Xss4m
-XX:PermSize=256m
-XX:MaxPermSize=1024m
-XX:+UseParallelGC
-XX:CompileThreshold=500

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

Hi Martin,

I am experiencing the same issue on STS 3.1.0. I am running Java 7, on ubuntu 12.04 Linux 64bit.

Regards
Kiren

Did you try to run the STS 3.1.0 version that is build on top of Eclipse 3.8 (instead of 4.2)?

-Martin

[Martin Lippert]

Hey Dan!

I've also experienced "lag" after working for a while during the day. I'm currently using the nightly builds hoping that it would be resolved but still no luck. Restarting fixes it for a while but it the issue returns.

My observation is that everything will be fine until after I start doing a few File Searches containing some text and searching files in my workspace matching this pattern: *.java, *.js*, *.properties, *.tag, *.xml, *.css In my project, this is searching roughly 5500 files.

I just switched to the "Classic" theme and disabled animates tonight (Preferences>Gneral>Appearance) and have yet to see any lag. I'll report back in a couple days to let you know if switching to the Classic theme helps with the lag.

Thanks for the details here. It is interesting that just switching to the Classic theme improves this. That surprises me a bit, since I thought that most of the problems were caused by the new UI implementation that is still being used after switching to the classic theme (as far as I know). However, good find. Thanks for that.

Did you also try the Eclipse 3.8-based version of STS 3.1.0 (and then go with the nightly builds)? Would be interesting to see if the problems go away when using that version. Since most of the performance issues of these kinds are caused by the 4.2-based Eclipse UI platform, using our nightly builds doesn't help much. We have to wait for the next Eclipse maintenance release (Juno SR2), which will include a lot of fixes for the performance issues. Meanwhile you should give STS 3.1.0 based on Eclipse 3.8 a try, ok?

HTH
-Martin

[jephillips34]

I think the folks at eclipse.org may have finally made real progress.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_b...?id=391868#c12

http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/ec...2975b3351da433

Bogdan's code changes appears to have fixed my problems with long delays switching between xml documents. I looked at the code changes he checked in, and identified two jars affected in this build:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/dow...-x86_64.tar.gz

So I swapped in these two jars:
org.eclipse.e4.ui.services_0.10.2.v20121107-162442.jar
org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings_0.10.2.v20121107-162442.jar

and updated the bundles.info to point to the new jars, and no more waiting!

Thought others might want to know...

John Phillips

[couwtekx]

Hi,

Do you guys happen to have the tar.gz file mirrored somewhere ?
Downloading it from Eclipse's server seems horribly slow...

I think the folks at eclipse.org may have finally made real progress.

https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_b...?id=391868#c12

http://git.eclipse.org/c/platform/ec...2975b3351da433

Bogdan's code changes appears to have fixed my problems with long delays switching between xml documents. I looked at the code changes he checked in, and identified two jars affected in this build:
http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/dow...-x86_64.tar.gz

So I swapped in these two jars:
org.eclipse.e4.ui.services_0.10.2.v20121107-162442.jar
org.eclipse.e4.ui.bindings_0.10.2.v20121107-162442.jar

and updated the bundles.info to point to the new jars, and no more waiting!

Thought others might want to know...

John Phillips

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

I think those maintenance builds are not mirrored by the usual Eclipse mirrors, since they are just in-between integration builds, and not full milestone or release builds.

As a side note: You could also download the STS builds on top of Eclipse 3.8 (available from the general STS download pages) to avoid those performance issues.

Cheers,
-Martin

[Martin Lippert]

Hey!

As we are working on more performance improvements at the moment, there is now a collecting JIRA ticket for that:
https://issuetracker.springsource.com/browse/STS-3054

This gives a good overview about what we are working on, what we found, and what is already done.

Cheers,
-Martin