How do I increase the speed of searches in Eclipse Indigo?

Question

My eclipse searches on internal files suddenly became very slow, is there any way to increase the speed on searches in Eclipse?

Are there any configuration changes or Eclipse settings that would speed up searches?

Answer 1

You don't mention what language you are working in or the eclipse version. For eclipse luna on an Angularjs project, I was able to filter out searches using derived resources as I didn't need to look through node_modules or bower_components.

There is a potential for creating problems however, but not in my case here. It took my searches down to just a few seconds on a large project. Just right click on a folder, go to properties, and mark a folder as derived. Derived entities are excluded from searching by default, so for an angularjs application, skipping bower_components and node_modules made it very fast!

There are other solutions, such as creating a Working Set with the folders you want to include in your searches, depending on the size and type of your project.

Here is a similar question on SO: Exclude folders from Eclipse search with more solutions.

Answer 2

i dont think so, there is any eclipse.ini configuration for this purpose.

The searches are the specific to the internal algorithms used in particular eclipse distribution.

I would suggest to upgrade your Eclipse distribution to latest Eclipse Juno 4.2 SR2