[COLUG] Eclipse bug with large directory structure

[Travis Sidelinger]

Eclipse Users,

We are using Eclipse for web development.  Numerous development web
servers have been setup.  A developer can check out their code from
Subversion onto a development web server.  They can then connect to the
web server via either webdav or sftp plugins, and work on their code.
Eclipse with the Sub-Eclipse plugin will automatically identify the code
is under SVN and allow SVN management.

The Problem :
  - Eclipse runs out of memory while syncing files
  - Or, Eclipse will hang and crash while syncing files
  - Or, Eclipse will complete syncing, but will randomly skip files and
directories

I have been able to replicate the randomly skipping of files and
directories on both a clean install of windows and my OpenSuse 10.1
Linux desktop.  In my testing I used a clean install of Eclipse 3.2.2
with only the ftp/webdav plugin added.

My suspect is the size of code directory structure, which is > 2G.
Smaller directories seem to work.

Has anyone else run into this?

Workaround - In the mean time, I've setup Microsoft's NFS client.  The
developers are able to connect to the NFS server that all the web
servers share.

Travis Sidelinger
Network Admin
Columbus Metropolitan Library