[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Slow performance on Linux GTK 2.1 M5

["John Smith" <someone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I am using the IBM JRE, on a P3 733 (among others), and performance is on
par with Eclipse's Windows performance on the same box.

"Gunnar Wagenknecht" <g.wagenknecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Hi!
>
> I tried 2.1 M5 this morning on a completly fresh Linux box (Gentoo 1.4rc2,
> XFree86 4.2.99.4, Gnome 2.0.3). X and Gnome run really fine and also
> accelerated with my Matrox G400 and nice anti-aliased fonts. The machine
is
> an Intel Pentium III 700 Mhz with 512MB RAM, 80GB harddisk with around 1
GB
> swap space.
>
> I installed Sun JDK 1.4.1_01_i586 and Eclipse 2.1 M5 for Linux GTK. The
> first thing I noticed is the really slow feedback from Eclipse itself.
> Clicking a menu or button takes time.
>
> Examples:
>
> click toolbar icon for "New Project Wizards"
> -> around 15 Seconds till wizard choose dialog appears
>
> It's really slow. I can't work as fluent as in Windows. Any ideas what
might
> cause this? Is it Eclipse? The Sun JDK?
>
> Thanks, Gunnar
>
>