Disable or speed up DLTK indexing in Eclipse PDT?
I am using Eclipse PDT Helios with Aptana Studio on Windows XP SP3.
Very often, my workflow is interrupted because Eclipse starts a DLTK indexing process that lasts 30 seconds, sometimes up to 2 minutes - which is annoying.
I wonder if there is any way to:
- Either turn that off or
- Run the DLTK indexing process less frequently.
I didn't find any possibility to change regarding parameters in Window > Preferences.
Answer
PDT 2.2 (the one in Helios) is using a local database engine, H2, to store information. I wrote a post highlighting how to improve the performance of the new indexer.
There might be another way, but it's requires hacking and I haven't tried it myself since the early builds of PDT 2.2 so YMMV: use a newer version of H2. You see, PDT 2.2 uses H2 version 1.1.117. The current version is 1.2.140. Basically, it involves downloading a newer version from the h2 site, and replacing the current H2 JAR in the plugins folder with this Jar. I should really write a blog post about it. I just need to find some time...