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Editors opening very slowly on Linux [message #334486] Thu, 12 February 2009 13:33 Go to next message
Mary Ellen Foster is currently offline Mary Ellen FosterFriend
Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
I'm using Eclipse 3.4.1 on Fedora, although colleagues who use Ubuntu have
also seen similar issues. Every time I open a new file, it takes a
perceptibly long time -- several seconds -- to actually open the editor
window. I've tried with an empty .eclipse directory and a fresh workspace
and with both GCJ 1.5 and OpenJDK 1.6, and it always happens.

Oddly, for me this is only on my desktop machine; I have no issue on my
laptop, which is running the same version of Fedora.

Is this a known problem? Where should I look for suggestions?

Thanks,

MEF
Re: Editors opening very slowly on Linux [message #334487 is a reply to message #334486] Thu, 12 February 2009 13:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Mary Ellen Foster is currently offline Mary Ellen FosterFriend
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Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
Addendum: here's a video of the sort of speed that I'm talking about:
http://www6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~foster/eclipse.ogg

In the video, I only open one Java editor and one Ant editor, but
subsequent Java/Ant editors are equally slow to open -- it seems to have
nothing to do with initialising classes on first opening or anything like
that.

MEF
Re: Editors opening very slowly on Linux [message #334491 is a reply to message #334486] Thu, 12 February 2009 14:58 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: igor.ifedorenko.com

Do you see the same problem with SUN or IBM JDK? I am on Ubuntu and have
not seen any performance problems running Eclipse using either JDK.

--
Regards,
Igor

Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> I'm using Eclipse 3.4.1 on Fedora, although colleagues who use Ubuntu
> have also seen similar issues. Every time I open a new file, it takes a
> perceptibly long time -- several seconds -- to actually open the editor
> window. I've tried with an empty .eclipse directory and a fresh
> workspace and with both GCJ 1.5 and OpenJDK 1.6, and it always happens.
>
> Oddly, for me this is only on my desktop machine; I have no issue on my
> laptop, which is running the same version of Fedora.
>
> Is this a known problem? Where should I look for suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> MEF
>
Re: Editors opening very slowly on Linux [message #334493 is a reply to message #334491] Thu, 12 February 2009 16:24 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Eclipse UserFriend
Originally posted by: mickael.istria.openwide.fr

Hi,

I agree with Igor.

My colleagues and I experimented the same troubles under Ubuntu with gcj
or OpenJDK, and the only solution we found was to switch to the Sun JVM...

Hope that helps

Regards,
Mickael

Igor Fedorenko a écrit :
> Do you see the same problem with SUN or IBM JDK? I am on Ubuntu and have
> not seen any performance problems running Eclipse using either JDK.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Igor
>
> Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>> I'm using Eclipse 3.4.1 on Fedora, although colleagues who use Ubuntu
>> have also seen similar issues. Every time I open a new file, it takes
>> a perceptibly long time -- several seconds -- to actually open the
>> editor window. I've tried with an empty .eclipse directory and a fresh
>> workspace and with both GCJ 1.5 and OpenJDK 1.6, and it always happens.
>>
>> Oddly, for me this is only on my desktop machine; I have no issue on
>> my laptop, which is running the same version of Fedora.
>>
>> Is this a known problem? Where should I look for suggestions?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> MEF
>>
Re: Editors opening very slowly on Linux [message #334505 is a reply to message #334486] Fri, 13 February 2009 08:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Achim Loerke is currently offline Achim LoerkeFriend
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Registered: July 2009
Location: Braunschweig, Germany
Senior Member

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:33:13 +0000 (UTC), mefoster@gmail.com (Mary
Ellen Foster) wrote:

>I'm using Eclipse 3.4.1 on Fedora, although colleagues who use Ubuntu have
>also seen similar issues. Every time I open a new file, it takes a
>perceptibly long time -- several seconds -- to actually open the editor
>window. I've tried with an empty .eclipse directory and a fresh workspace
>and with both GCJ 1.5 and OpenJDK 1.6, and it always happens.
>

Please don't use gcj: it's not supported by Eclipse and causes a
significant amount of questions in the "Why does my Eclipse doesn't
start/keeps crashing" section in the newsgroups.

Have a look at http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/moreinfo/jre.php for a
list of supported VMs.


Achim
--
Achim Lörke

Eclipse-Stammtisch in the Braunschweig, Germany area:
http://www.bredex.de/de/news/events.html


Achim Lörke

Re: Editors opening very slowly on Linux [message #334507 is a reply to message #334486] Fri, 13 February 2009 09:09 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Dani Megert is currently offline Dani MegertFriend
Messages: 3802
Registered: July 2009
Senior Member
Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> I'm using Eclipse 3.4.1 on Fedora, although colleagues who use Ubuntu
> have also seen similar issues. Every time I open a new file, it takes
> a perceptibly long time -- several seconds -- to actually open the
> editor window. I've tried with an empty .eclipse directory and a fresh
> workspace and with both GCJ 1.5 and OpenJDK 1.6, and it always happens.
Besides not using GCJ you might see this bug:
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153936

Dani
>
> Oddly, for me this is only on my desktop machine; I have no issue on
> my laptop, which is running the same version of Fedora.
>
> Is this a known problem? Where should I look for suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> MEF
>
Re: Editors opening very slowly on Linux [message #334526 is a reply to message #334507] Mon, 16 February 2009 08:15 Go to previous message
Mary Ellen Foster is currently offline Mary Ellen FosterFriend
Messages: 4
Registered: July 2009
Junior Member
Daniel Megert wrote:

> Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
>> Every time I open a new file, it takes
>> a perceptibly long time -- several seconds -- to actually open the
>> editor window.
> you might see this bug:
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153936

Hallelujah! Adding -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.disablePrinting to the
-vmargs fixed the problem! My colleagues and I thank you. :)

MEF
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