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

[Stelian Iancu <stelian.iancu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jan Schulz wrote:

> * 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

In the meantime, I did some research on multithreading on Linux and I found
out that this is the normal behavior.

Thanks!
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Regards,
Stelian Iancu
Linux registered user 287835