Java application startup suddenly extremely slow - java

Since yesterday I experience a very strange issue. I'm a dev so I already spent 12 hours solving this issue with no success prior to asking this question.
My configuration: Windows 10 Pro 64b, 1803. Latest Java 8.
Start up time of every Java application is 100x larger than the previous day. For example, "Configure Java", i.e. javacpl.exe takes 3 minutes to start, Pycharm takes 20 minutes start etc. Once started, everything works nominally. Once closed, the start up time issue repeats.
I have already reinstalled Java, even tried Java 11 to no improvement. I reinstalled all applications affected, no improvement.
During the startup, the application runs high on CPU (1 thread 100%), with no disk or network activity.
I do not think I changed anything in previous days that would affect Java. Only thing that stands out is Cumulative Windows Update 2018-11 that installed. I believe there must be other people experiencing this.
I would like to fix this without the need to reinstall Windows.

Thanks everyone for help, I ended up reinstalling Windows which solved the problem.

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When Eclipse is building my workspace, it freezes

When eclipse is building my workspace, it gets held up at about 19% when updating an unmodified(after project creation) javafx application. Why is it doing this and how can I fix it?
OS: Windows 8
Eclipse Version: 4.7
JDK 9.0.1
JRE 1.8
I've seen other threads about similar problems and they have suggested allocating more memory, I've allocated 1gb to each and nothing has changed, I can't allocate more without instability.
--EDIT--
On deleting the javafx application from my disk it no longer crashes
It turns out the answer to my question was as simple as it could get, all I had to do was delete the application and then recreate it, I think when I first tried to generate it I interrupted it by ending the task because I thought it had crashed.
This is bit late reply, but for people who still looking for this answer might help. I had similar problems and spent few hours. This is what worked for me and I no longer have any problem.
Delete your workspace and create a new one if its first time you started eclipse or create a new workspace and import all your projects there.
Also assigning more ram to eclipse also further increases speed. which can be found here:
How can you speed up Eclipse?

Wildfly 10.1.0.Final on Windows 10 hang on "Starting deployment" at least 2 minutes

I am having a really annoying "problem" with Wildfly. I have been using it for at least two years now and I really don't know what could be the problem.
So I have a fresh Windows 10 64 bit install, and then I started working on my projects as well which was started earlier and there were no problem with the deploy time.
I just pulled my stuff from VCS and then when I started to deploy it with Wildfly (as well as with Maven's Wildfly plugin and as well as put the .war into the deployments folder) the server prints out "Starting deployment ..." and then hangs for two minutes!! Always two minutes then deploy the application. It happens with no one project, with at least three, on my other laptop which has Windows 7 everything works fine.
I did not want to create any issue ticket yet on JBoss JIRA but I would like to ask for some help or tip, which can cause this kind of anomaly?
Thanks in advance.
So, yeah.
Windows 10 just got it again. I don't really like this OS, but I was curious about that.
So the problem was caused by the Windows Defender, my friend payed me attention about that. When the Maven build runs or the DEPLOY the Defender goes on 20-30% CPU time. When we switched off the Real time defending the problem went, and the deploy time (as on Windows 7 or anything) went to 20-30 sec. I just can not beleive that Windows 10 killed my working time for at least 1 month :D
Ubuntu here I come.

Solved: JVM hangs forever with no CPU usage or I/O

I'm experiencing this weird problem that the JVM hangs forever very frequently.
I first observed the problem when my Java IDEs frequently hang the entire system GUI. IntelliJ IDEA hangs on indexing almost every single time upon start. Sometimes it proceeds to resolving dependency but always hangs in the end. When this happens, I can type in gnome-terminal, but the commands can't seem to be executed. I can't launch new applications with Alt-F2 or anything alike.
I had to switch to a text console and "killall -9 java" to kill the IDEA process and get control back. "kill -3 java" won't work. The log file contains nothing related, the thread dump is empty. Once the IDE hung, jstack cannot be attached to the process. "jstack -l pid" also hangs. "jstack -F pid" can't attach to the process. Visualvm hangs as well.
The CPU usage by the Java process is 0% and there is no I/O going on.
I've observed the same behavior when using Eclipse. Sometimes it hangs on start up, sometimes upon saving and sometimes upon running a Java application.
Maven / sbt builds executed within text-only ttys cause the same kind of hang, so I guess it's not a window manager / desktop environment / display driver problem.
I highly suspect it's a file system or I/O issue but I have no clue how to debug that. I've tried fsck with no luck, and my system works perfectly fine when not running java programs.
Things I've ruled out:
Permission issues: running IntelliJ with sudo doesn't help, hangs 100% of the time.
Display driver: I've tried both the Nvidia proprietary driver and nouveau, the open source one. Doesn't help.
Window manager / desktop environment: I use Cinnamon, but I've tried running IntelliJ under Unity. Doesn't help.
Java version: I've tried both Oracle Java 7 and Oracle Java 8. I'll probably try OpenJDK but I doubt it would work.
IntelliJ version: I've tried IntelliJ 13 through 14.1. All exhibited the same behavior.
Limited memory: I have 16G RAM with 16G swap space, so memory should not be a limiting factor.
Kernel log doesn't look suspicious. I can't get any kind of log remotely indicating what went wrong.
Any idea?
UPDATE (2015/04/29): The problem seems to have fixed itself after I accidentally kicked the power cable and cold restarted the computer... Still a mystery but IntelliJ is usable as of now.
Some things to check
- The Java IDEs run best with a lot of ram. I usually ask for at least
8G of memory for my dev workstation.
- Make sure you have a stable version of everything, look for known working versions/configurations on Ubuntu
- You have to manually allocate memory in IntelliJ IDEA versions < 14. For example: How to increase IDE memory limit in IntelliJ IDEA on Mac?
- Besides system logs, run tools like top and see what's happening in terms for cpu and ram when running the IDE
I had similar problems a while ago but with Eclipse. The problem was that there was no swap place at all ;) - obviously it should not be a problem with 16GB of RAM.
Could You post JVM arguments for Intellij? And also I have an idea to create another Intellij installation (eg. go back to 14 version) and see if there is similar problem (also compare JVMs settings between these two).
Edit
Ok so try:
use different JRE/JDK. If the problem disappears it will tell us more.
You are on linux so it makes it easy to monitor several things - you said that there is no CPU utilization or hard I/O. But how do you know that? Maybe it will be informative to have some statistics gathered - eg.jstat for JVM itself or for system information (You think that is I/O problem) try:
iostat -hm -p sda 1
Which will print I/O statistics for sda (if you have different discs change device parameter) in 1sec loops (can be also changed). Start this with system and dump output to the file - maybe there is some kind of 'disaster' happening before JVM hangs. Note: iostat sometimes is not available on system itself (on my Linux Mint is not) - install then package sysstat and the command will be available.
Seem to have fixed after a cold restart from an accidental power loss.. Weirdest problem I have ever seen.

Java 1.6.x ant build slower on OSX?

At my wits end here. We've recently grabbed a Mac Pro to test out as a development environment, moving from Ubuntu - we were really hoping to see some serious decrease of our build times, but in fact the opposite is true. I'm wondering if we're missing something config related with Mavericks, we've already disabled spotlight on the appropriate directories.. messed around with ANT options giving up to 8G of memory for the builds.
Is HFS+ that much slower that EXT3? The build is writing 55k+ files to an exploded ear.
I've run disk tests on the mac, and we're seeing close to 1GB/s read time & 750MB/s write time so it doesn't seem to be hardware related. The linux build completes in just under 8 minutes, whereas the Mac Pro is looking at 9.5 minutes.
I'd like to avoid any kind of religious style OS discussions, I also know we could try installing Linux on the mac and see what happens, but at that point I'm not sure we're seeing a reason to spend $1600 more than our current high end non-Apple build. Looking more for any 'obvious' reasons we might be seeing this issue.
Thanks.
Answering my own question - unfortunately we sent the machine back, but later when moving to macbook pros, we discovered that we were still using a pretty old version of ANT (1.7.x), and the weblogic deps also had ant 1.7.x in the class path. We moved to 1.9.x & saw a big increase in speed on the macbook pros, so I suspect that a newer version of any may have seen some speed increase on the Mac Pro as well.
You've run some disk tests on the mac - how about on the Linux box? It's possible it's faster than the mac in that regard. Something else to check out - is the mac using filevault? I've noticed that will really eat into compile times vs raw disk, but it doesn't usually show up on a disk read / write test that's using a single large block of data.

JVM/Java forces applications to run slower on first start, Windows 8?

I have tried three IDEs, all of which I'm fairly sure require Java to run, and all of them start up very very slow (30 seconds to 1 minute) on the first launch of the day. After that, they all start up lightening fast.
The three programs are: Aptana Studio 3, Eclipse, and PHP Webstorm.
Based on upon my web searches, I have modified the AptanaStudio3.ini using some of the suggestions on how to speed it up and they all work ... for every start up after the first launch, that is, but the first launch of the day remains painfully and inexplicably slow.
I have searched SO and I did not see any questions speaking to this issue. If anyone finds an answer here, thank you very much but I could not.
My only conclusion is that this issue is related to how Java runs on Windows 8 since all three software programs are adversely affected. Is this a known bug in Java on Windows 8? I have no idea what to think but I would be greatly appreciative if someone can offer help.
OBSERVATION: from my testing, it seems that if I start up my laptop and then launch Eclipse or Aptana within the first say the first 10 minutes of booting, it launches quicker (still slow but not as bad) then if I were to wait for about an hour and then launch my IDE. Not sure what this indicates.
Thanks
Though you can tune the Eclipse (or Aptana) .ini file and do things like disable class verification and boot using the JVM DLL, this has more to do with OS and hardware disk caching than the JVM. Boot each of the IDEs from a Ramdisk and you'll see that they boot equally as quickly from RAM the first time as they do from 'disk' the second time.
Source: I've spent a lot of time trying to solve this problem already. :)
It might be worth checking your antivirus scanner behaviour - I have precisely this problem.
In spite of SSD & reasonably quick i5 on win8 ultimate, the first boot time for eclipse is measured in many minutes (can be over 10), with subsequent restarts being done in a matter of tens of seconds. The whole PC can do a full restart in about half a minute, so its unlikely to be a raw I/O issue.
From looking at the cpu hogs & digging from there, it appears that the a/v (macafee) is doing an on-access scan for all the eclipse components & plugins after every boot & I suspect this is where much of the time is being taken.
I'll post an update when I've persauded someone to exclude eclipse & jvm from the on-access scan...
Since Aptana Studio is based upon Eclipse there is no big difference to be expected.
This is not a known Bug for Java on Windows 8, since I experienced it at least already in Windows 7. AFAIK it has to do with starting the JVM for the first time.
Of course you could throw a lot of memory at it or tweak the .ini of the IDE. The JVM-startupprocess wouldn't really be affected and it would still be slow. What is neglectable for a server is a problem on the desktop. For details take a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_performance#Startup%5Ftime

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