[news.eclipse.tools] Re: Eclipse behavior in Linux GTK

[Jan Schulz <muelleimer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've just downloaded Eclipse 2.1 (Linux GTK edition) and I'm running it
> under Gentoo 1.4rc2. I've noticed that it runs incredibly slow, so I

Is it this:
http://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31525

If that happens in a backgrount thread, I have the same experience.

Try top and see what this gives. This bug produces around 50% XFree
and 50% Java CPU with me here

> did a ps aux | grep eclipse:
[...]
> This is what I get, but the last process repeats like, 20 times or so
> (actually there are around 20 different processes, all like the last
> shown above). I never did check out this issue with older eclipse
> versions, but is it normal? 

AFAIK it is (it's the same here). I think thats beacuase of
background threads. Every thread tales it's own prozess, so it looks
like tehre are about 20 eclipse prozesses. It's the same with OOo,
there are also several 'prozesses'.

Jan