I wanted to trigger multiple jenkins servers from a github hook.

I found this pull request which led me to look at the API

This worked for me today - saving it here so I can find it again

http://off-topic.biz/en/eclipse-hangs-at-startup-showing-only-the-splash-screen/

One of those posts for myself in case I need to come back to this later

I have a new PC which is very fast apart from problems with disc access seeming slow (and the disks being physically noisy)

The following related links led me to try a solution