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Why Eclipse’s “Check for Updates” is horribly slow (and how to fix it)
I recently installed Eclipse Indigo. I wanted to add a few plugins to it, so I tried to use the UI to check for new updates and install some new packages. I let it run for a while, and after about 45 minutes, it looked to be about 20% done. Eventually, it displayed a few errors about timing out.
The issue is that Eclipse appears to be trying to contact mirrors that don't have a proper copy of all the files it's expecting. My solution was to invoke eclipse with the following flag. Add it after "eclipse", or in eclipse.ini
-Declipse.p2.mirrors=false
October 31st, 2011 - 15:56
For the love of all that is holy, THANK YOU!
May 30th, 2012 - 23:04
Words cannot describe how awesome you are…
June 7th, 2012 - 02:38
Unbelievable! Eclipse has been upgrading for 10 hours. But when I added this option It had completed in ten minutes.
Thank you very much.
June 11th, 2012 - 09:55
Thanks for the tip ! It was so slow before, I was wondering why causes it.