title: Why does my Eclipse take so long to start up?
body: <p>I have Eclipse Helios 64bit with 64bit java on a 64 bit windows 7 machine.  When I launch eclipse, it can take as long as 30 minutes before it comes to the workspace prompt. Once it hits the workspace prompt, everything is fine and works at normal speed.  Sometimes it will start and get to the prompt in as few as 30 seconds.  The startup speeds vary regardless of what else is running or not running on my computer.  </p>
  
  <p>I have 4 gb of ram, and my ini file is as below.  I've tried changing all of the values, and variations from <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/142357/what-are-the-best-jvm-settings-for-eclipse#144349">What are the best JVM settings for Eclipse?</a>.  the -clean or -refresh options all apply to after the selection of workspace, so don't help, same with deleting metadata.  On times when it takes the longest, Eclipse will open with only 20 mb of ram, and gain only about 16 kb a second.  While running with projects loaded, it usually uses 940 mb of ram.  The workspace prompt comes up right around 256 mb - the launcher perm size.</p>
  
  <pre><code>-startup
  plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher_1.1.1.R36x_v20101122_1400.jar
  --launcher.library
  plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.win32.win32.x86_64_1.1.2.R36x_v20101222
  -showsplash
  org.eclipse.platform
  -vm
  C:/Java/Java/jdk1.6.0_25/jre/bin/server/jvm.dll
  -product
  org.eclipse.epp.package.java.product
  --launcher.defaultAction
  openFile
  --launcher.XXMaxPermSize
  256M
  -vmargs
  -Dosgi.requiredJava
  Version=1.5
  -Dosgi.requiredJavaVersion=1.5
  -Xms728m
  -Xmx728m
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If any has any ideas or has experienced this as well, I'd appreciate any help.</p>