* samk(a)twinix.com <samk(a)twinix.com> [2009-04-13 07:07]:
I had exactly the same problem here and managed to reduce it (using
strace) to timeouts communicating with another host on our network -
which turned out to be configured as the eclipse host's print server
in /etc/cups/client.conf.
After upgrading the printing configuration "as it should be" - using
localhost in /etc/cups/client.conf and setting up browsing in the
local cups configuration to automagically attach the printers exported
by the network cups server - opening new editors in eclipse became
instantaneous.
250528: [printing] Opening of an editor is very slow on machines that
see many network printers
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=250528
215234: Investigate enumeratePrinters hang on GTK
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=215234
Andrew