Eclipse Android SDK slow Content Assist performance

Im running eclipse on my windows 7 machine, 64bit with 6gb ram and core 2 duo. Im currently running Eclipse 3.6 and android 2.2 SDK Im running jdk 1.6

Im noticing that when coding and the context popups to list methods of a class, it hangs Eclipse for up to 15 seconds. This is very frustrating.

One thing to note, when Eclipse hangs, my processor is maxed out, and is being worked by a java process. So its doing something whatever it is. But frequently everytime I finish an object with a period and the context box pops up, its becoming too painful to work with.

I changed some settings in the Eclipse.ini file such as: -Xms1024m -Xmx1024m --launcher.XXMaxPermSize 512m

Is there anything else I should look at:

Solution

After a google search

I have been able to find the bug report from Eclipse.

In short:

It is a problem that arises when using Helios with ADT. As the ADT page on android.com says:

Caution: There are known issues with the ADT plugin running with Eclipse 3.6. Please stay on 3.5 until further notice.

To fix it, you will have to use Eclipse 3.5 and put your project in a newly created workspace. (If you keep the workspace from Eclipse 3.6, the problem will occur even on Eclipse 3.5.)