Unresponsive developer

Classic Servoy
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Hi All

We have been experiencing some periods of unresponsiveness within developer.

Firstly developer takes sooo long to fire up, like enough time to have a coffee and a cigarette and maybe mow the lawn(just kidding).

When duplicating a form for instance, developer seems to just hang for at least 15 seconds give or take before coming back to life.
The same thing also happens believe it or not even when cutting and pasting code sometimes though not to the same extent.
Deleting forms also causes the longer delay.
Sometimes when writing code, i can be happily typing away, and all of a sudden realise that the past 6 or 7 line just haven’t appeared on the screen, and have stopped mid statement, they do eventually arrive, but its so frustrating when doing simple stuff like this or cutting and pasting that this is happening.

We have experienced this on the following spec machines.

Windows XP sp3
3gb Ram

Windows XP SP3
4gb Ram

Windows 7
3gb Ram
128gb SSD

Has anyone else noticed this issue and if so what can we do to sort it out.

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I have only read the subject as I"m in a hurry, but have you tried caffeine? :D

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Hi McCourt,

finally someone describing the exact same situation we’re having with our solution.
Don’t know if you tried, but after debugging we often end up in a java heap space error.

We even don’t think of working any further after debugging without restarting Serclipse.

I realize this post doesn’t help you much, but maybe it feels better you’re not alone :-)

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Hi Mark,

Yep the debugging issue is plaguing us also.
Missing breakpoints, having to restart developer repeatedly throughout the day.

At least someone else is suffering not just us :-P

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if you get a out of mem and then the heap space problem
you really just have assigned to little memory to your servoy developer

open the servoy.ini file and increase the -XmxNNN number to 512MB or 700 (but that would be really large and weird)

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Hi Johan,

we’ve discussed this earlier, and no matter what we do or how much memory we assign, the problem persists.
As there’s a noticeable difference after having used the debugger, I can’t get around the idea that this must have something to do with Servoy.

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mboegem:
Hi Johan,

we’ve discussed this earlier, and no matter what we do or how much memory we assign, the problem persists.
As there’s a noticeable difference after having used the debugger, I can’t get around the idea that this must have something to do with Servoy.

cpu use or hangs ok

but out of mem, can’t happen. What is the memory usage for you?
If you enable Preferences → General and the select the heap status
What does that say when you are getting to a out of mem?

Do you start your servoy with arguments? like -vmargs ?