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

[Daniel Megert <daniel_megert@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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