Re: [eclipse-dev] Why eclipse run very slowly on linux than it does on w

[David Whiteman <dlwhiteman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 9:58:22 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:

> ¡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.

I also think that Eclipse performance on GTK has been improved since
version 2.1.2.

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