[eclipse-dev] Why eclipse run very slowly on linux than it does on windo

[Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>]

¡Í½ë writes:

 > 	  I used eclipse 2.1.2 on Windows 2000 professional
 > 	  previously. Recently I moved to RedHat Linux 9 in order to
 > 	  make the developing enviroment more similar with our FreeBSD
 > 	  production server. But, eclipse 2.1.2 linux gtk+ performed
 > 	  very bad on my linux workstation. While it stoped response,
 > 	  the CPU usage of my workstation was not reported very
 > 	  hign. Instead it seemed just ordinary like anytime else. It
 > 	  was just responsed very slow, even what I did is just
 > 	  activate an eclipse window.
 > 
 > 	Can anybody tell a way? I love eclipse. But it must perform
 > 	quickly enough.

Probably a lack of RAM.  Use the command "top" and see what it says.

Andrew.