Horrible eclipse performance on macbook pro running 10.5.8

I am using eclipse galileo on my macbook pro. After a few minutes it starts dragging really badly, like it takes 8 seconds to open a file. I don't have many files open at all. I already modified the config file to increase ram and all that stuff. Is there something wrong with this version of eclipse, never had it run so poor开发者_如何学Pythonly on here,

Thanks

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After looking at this SO question, I would recommend:

• using an optimized eclipse ini (like this one)
• replacing in that eclipse.ini -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5 by -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.6 (see this SO question)
• use 64-bit Cocoa andand add to the JVM switches (still in the eclipse.ini) for running in 64 bit on Snow Leopard:

    -XX:+UseParallelGC
    -XX:+UseCompressedOops

(The last point would apply for Snow Leopard -- 10.6.x -- and not Leopard -- 10.6.5 -- as mentioned by zvikico, so read his blog post on the topic (and upvote his answer in this thread ;) )

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I'm with OS X 10.5.8 and my Eclipse runs great. Start by looking at the heap (Preferences -> General -> Show Heap Status). Next, check the Error Log for errors in your Eclipse platform (Window -> Show View -> Error Log).

This could be a problem with one of your plugins or with the workspace. I would try downloading a clean Eclipse install (you can have as many as you need) and starting a new Workspace. Try importing your projects (do not copy the settings). See if it works better for you.

Make sure you get the Cocoa version.