Eclipse updates are extremely slow

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Oleg Chirukhin picture Oleg Chirukhin · Feb 14, 2011 · Viewed 15.7k times · Source

Today I tried to download EGit plug-in from eclipse.org, and waited an hour and nothing happened. I tried three more times, waited for three hours and stopped.

Then I tried to clone egit from the repository developers, but it began to clone at a rate of 5kbps.

Then I thought maybe something wrong with my Eclipse, and decided to download a new one. Eclipse main site opened with a super-slow speed (although bigger than 5kbps). I'm just afraid to download the installer at this speed.

Can anybody repoduce it? What should I do?

Answer

vincent mathew picture vincent mathew · Feb 28, 2012

You're right, Eclipse updating can be horribly slow, regardless of connection speed.

From what I can tell, this is because it checks a whole bunch of slow servers looking for updates every time you try and install something. You can disable this behaviour in the "Install New Software" dialog by unchecking the "Contact all update sites" option. I find that things go an awful lot faster then.

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