[news.eclipse.platform] Re: Editors opening very slowly on Linux

[Achim Lörke <Achim.Loerke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 13:33:13 +0000 (UTC), mefoster@xxxxxxxxx (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
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