Eclipse getting too slow - workspace recreation helped

Question

My Eclipse was getting slower and slower over time. Tips I found on the Internet did not help. What I did is completely deleted my workspace, created new one and reimported all

Answer 1

Not sure about newer versions of eclipse, but in 3.1 settings in

Preferences->General->Workspace->Local history

did not work for me. I had it set by default to 7 days but files were kept for 4 years. And I guess other people here had the same issue.

For me it helped to remove history files manually from

.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.core.resources/.history.