Difference between revisions of "Working on CSE machines"
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* Move folders from your home directory to a local directory -- /scratch works perfectly. This works because your home directory is on the network. The only downside to this is that /scratch isn't backed up, so if the hard drive gets messed up then it's all gone. However, this is mitigated by the fact that most of your content will be backed up on Git. | * Move folders from your home directory to a local directory -- /scratch works perfectly. This works because your home directory is on the network. The only downside to this is that /scratch isn't backed up, so if the hard drive gets messed up then it's all gone. However, this is mitigated by the fact that most of your content will be backed up on Git. | ||
| − | ** Put all your repos and programs (maven, scala, eclipse, etc) into /scratch. | + | ** ``Put all your repos and programs`` (maven, scala, eclipse, etc) into /scratch. |
| − | ** There are many dot directories in your home directory that can be moved into a separate directory in /scratch (you'll definitely want to look at .m2 and .eclipse). Just make a symbolic link in your home directory that points to the one in your /scratch directory. | + | ** ``There are many dot directories`` in your home directory that can be moved into a separate directory in /scratch (you'll definitely want to look at .m2 and .eclipse). Just make a symbolic link in your home directory that points to the one in your /scratch directory. |
* If you're working in Eclipse, go to your eclipse.ini file (located at $ECLIPSE_HOME or wherever you've placed your Eclipse installation) and look for the line that defines -Xms and -Xmx. -Xms is the minimum heap size, -Xmx is the maximum. Try out -Xms256m and -Xmx1024m. | * If you're working in Eclipse, go to your eclipse.ini file (located at $ECLIPSE_HOME or wherever you've placed your Eclipse installation) and look for the line that defines -Xms and -Xmx. -Xms is the minimum heap size, -Xmx is the maximum. Try out -Xms256m and -Xmx1024m. | ||
* Email support and ask for some extra RAM for your machine. | * Email support and ask for some extra RAM for your machine. | ||
Revision as of 18:20, 29 June 2012
If you're working on a CSE machine and it's going too slowly for you, try these solutions:
- Move folders from your home directory to a local directory -- /scratch works perfectly. This works because your home directory is on the network. The only downside to this is that /scratch isn't backed up, so if the hard drive gets messed up then it's all gone. However, this is mitigated by the fact that most of your content will be backed up on Git.
- ``Put all your repos and programs`` (maven, scala, eclipse, etc) into /scratch.
- ``There are many dot directories`` in your home directory that can be moved into a separate directory in /scratch (you'll definitely want to look at .m2 and .eclipse). Just make a symbolic link in your home directory that points to the one in your /scratch directory.
- If you're working in Eclipse, go to your eclipse.ini file (located at $ECLIPSE_HOME or wherever you've placed your Eclipse installation) and look for the line that defines -Xms and -Xmx. -Xms is the minimum heap size, -Xmx is the maximum. Try out -Xms256m and -Xmx1024m.
- Email support and ask for some extra RAM for your machine.
