[COLUG] Eclipse bug with large directory structure

[Travis Sidelinger]

In my testing I used a clean install of Eclipse 3.2.2 with only the
ftp/webdav plugin added.

Greg Sidelinger wrote:
> Does this happen with both svn implementations in subclipse, JavaHL and
> SVNKit? You might want to increase heap sizes (eclipse -vmargs -Xmx756M)
> in eclipse.
> 
>> 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
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