Improve Performance Developing with Eclipse https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_thread?p_l_id=119785294&threadId=119913307 2026-04-05T20:16:24Z 2026-04-05T20:16:24Z Olaf Kock https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119960152 2020-09-17T06:00:26Z 2020-09-17T06:00:26Z

<div class="quote-title">Husham Khartoum:</div><blockquote><br />Hi,I did some good changes regarding setenv in tomcat folder settings and also change eclipse tomcat setting to work on 8192. It’s currently fast and better.</blockquote>So you did <em>something</em> that did <em>something</em>...<br />Would you mind letting us participate in <em>something</em>?

Olaf Kock 2020-09-17T06:00:26Z Husham Khartoum https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119959312 2020-09-16T20:35:39Z 2020-09-16T20:35:39Z

Hi,I did some good changes regarding setenv in tomcat folder settings and also change eclipse tomcat setting to work on 8192. It’s currently fast and better.

Husham Khartoum 2020-09-16T20:35:39Z Olaf Kock https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119952963 2020-09-16T13:14:50Z 2020-09-16T13:14:50Z

<div class="quote-title">Fredi B:</div><blockquote><br /> We also consider to switch to i7s soon.<br />So maybe this will also give us some performance boosting.<br /></blockquote>I&#39;d say potentially AV eats more performance than any processor can add (At least give it a try to deactivate it briefly on the current systems - that&#39;s the easiest and cheapest way to find out) And so can a broken SSD which takes random time to read from a specific sector - especially if that&#39;s data that&#39;s commonly needed.

Olaf Kock 2020-09-16T13:14:50Z Fredi B https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119951624 2020-09-16T05:31:03Z 2020-09-16T05:31:03Z

Thank you Christoph, Olaf and Nirav for your valuable feedback.<br />We took the time and reinstalled Liferay IDE on two systems and also switched a most-likely broken SSD.<br /><br /> We also consider to switch to i7s soon.<br />So maybe this will also give us some performance boosting.

Fredi B 2020-09-16T05:31:03Z Nirav Prajapati https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119920871 2020-09-09T02:53:19Z 2020-09-09T02:53:19Z

<blockquote><br /><br />You are absolutely correct<br /><br />Sometimes it&#39;s irritating like, when we start IDE, it suddenly starts Gradle Refresh, I have 50+ modules in my workspace, it&#39;s taking 7-8 min to refresh and ready to start. <br /><br />Even whenever I am adding a new dependency in build.gradle those time as well it&#39;s taking same time to refresh.<br /></blockquote><br /><div class="quote-title">Fredi B:</div><blockquote><br />We as company decided to switch to Liferay this year.<br /><br />Sadly most of our developers get really frustrated about the performance of Eclipse when working with Liferay.<br /><u>Examples:</u><br />- Time to start local server often up to 7 minutes. <br />- The Gradle refresh - that is often required - takes forever.<br />- Publishing takes very long<br />- Deploy/redeploy of modules take very long<br />- The Project explorer jumps, collapses and changes order while Eclipse has running tasks - really frustrating!<br /><br />The working stations of our developers have mostly the same specs: <br />-16 GB RAM<br />- i5-8265 @ 1.6-1.8 GHz <br /> and they develop for 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 CE Liferay <br /><br /><strong>It&#39;s always easy to complain therefor I am interested in solutions to improve the performance of Eclipse and local Liferay Development.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><strong>With what kind of hardware are you working with Liferay and are you experience any difference in performance to described above problems?</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong>Any tips of the Liferay Gurus and Community to make developing with Liferay more efficent and enjoyable?<br /><br />Cheers, Fredi </blockquote>

Nirav Prajapati 2020-09-09T02:53:19Z Christoph Rabel https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119914427 2020-09-07T15:31:19Z 2020-09-07T15:31:19Z

Antivirus is a real killer, we issues with it too, a new colleague, with the shiny new laptop complained a couple of months ago about the performance. I was really stumped for a bit because everything &#34;java&#34; was horrible slow. Really horrible slow. And then we disabled the antivirus ...<br />Anyway: 7 minutes startup time is by far too long, it doesn&#39;t even take that long on older systems. There is something fishy going on. Just checking: harddisk or SSD? If you have harddisks, invest a bit of money in SSDs. It really pays off.

Christoph Rabel 2020-09-07T15:31:19Z Olaf Kock https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119914065 2020-09-07T14:36:19Z 2020-09-07T14:36:19Z

<div class="quote-title">Fredi B:</div><blockquote><br />- Time to start local server often up to 7 minutes. <br />- The Gradle refresh - that is often required - takes forever.<br />- Publishing takes very long<br />- Deploy/redeploy of modules take very long<br />- The Project explorer jumps, collapses and changes order while Eclipse has running tasks - really frustrating!<br /></blockquote><br />My dev server starts in ~1 minute - inside and outside of eclipse. I&#39;d recommend to check what&#39;s causing the delay - could be antivirus, network, CPU. But with that discrepancy between 1 and 7 minutes, it should be easy to spot the biggest offender. Even memory can be a candidate, if other applications cause the server to use swap space. Hint: Run the server with minimal amount of memory, so that it doesn&#39;t cause other software to swap out.<br />Publishing for me is instant as well: Ctrl-S (save), Alt-Tab to the browser, Ctrl-R (reload page) is in muscle memory and works well, without delays. I&#39;m not racing the clock, but I don&#39;t perceive a delay.<br />Gradle refresh can take a while if it has something substantial to do, but in general it&#39;s quick. Again: Network, Antivirus or similar might be worth looking at. I&#39;ve also seen slow DNS lookups significantly slowing down servers (not Liferay though, but I always check it as an option)

Olaf Kock 2020-09-07T14:36:19Z Fredi B https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&messageId=119913306 2020-09-07T13:35:53Z 2020-09-07T13:35:53Z

We as company decided to switch to Liferay this year.<br /><br />Sadly most of our developers get really frustrated about the performance of Eclipse when working with Liferay.<br /><u>Examples:</u><br />- Time to start local server often up to 7 minutes. <br />- The Gradle refresh - that is often required - takes forever.<br />- Publishing takes very long<br />- Deploy/redeploy of modules take very long<br />- The Project explorer jumps, collapses and changes order while Eclipse has running tasks - really frustrating!<br /><br />The working stations of our developers have mostly the same specs: <br />-16 GB RAM<br />- i5-8265 @ 1.6-1.8 GHz <br /> and they develop for 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 CE Liferay <br /><br /><strong>It&#39;s always easy to complain therefor I am interested in solutions to improve the performance of Eclipse and local Liferay Development.</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong><strong>With what kind of hardware are you working with Liferay and are you experience any difference in performance to described above problems?</strong><br /><strong></strong><br /><strong></strong>Any tips of the Liferay Gurus and Community to make developing with Liferay more efficent and enjoyable?<br /><br />Cheers, Fredi 

Fredi B 2020-09-07T13:35:53Z