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copied!<p>Upgrade your cpu and increase your RAM and clean up your windows. Windows uses more resources than linux.</p> <p>Especially with all those background tasks, services and preloaded apps actively competing for resources under Windows. Let's see, you probably have these services, tasks or preloadeds:</p> <p>Oracle's not-for-commercial-use development db server, persistently active malicious file, s/w, cookie detector, Flash, OpenOffice, Java Hotspot/update, $5/month Fax, pdf printer, Picassa, msn/aol, find-a-russian-bride-notification (jest kiddin) ... etc.</p> <p>Every time a new Java update is performed, sun/oracle insist on ensuring their java update notification is preloaded thereafter. There's an urban legend that says that a certain (US) Republican senator once said, “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money”. Therefore, no matter how little resources publishers of preloaded s/w say they use, they all add up. Disable MSN, Flash, Open Office, etc. I'm sure you are more savvy than I am in these windows creepy annoyances.</p> <p>When I upgraded from dual core to quad core and from 2GB to 6 GB, the difference in performance of eclipse between Windows and Ubuntu narrowed to an undetectable difference. Every now and then eclipse on Windows still freezes up. I think the optimal set-up to run eclipse on windows is 6 CPUs 12 GB RAM - because I normally run two instances and sometimes even three instances of eclipse. And then occasionally netbeans as well.</p> <p>I also increased jvm max heap size to 1024 MB, though eclipse never seems to touch that amount of VM.</p>

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