[fedora-java] Very slow Eclipse on F10

[Andrew Haley]

Mary Ellen Foster wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Mary Ellen Foster <foster at in.tum.de> wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Andrew Overholt <overholt at redhat.com> wrote:
>>> * Mary Ellen Foster <foster at in.tum.de> [2009-01-26 08:34]:
>>>> I just tried with a fresh ~/.eclipse directory and a fresh workspace
>>>> -- and with both OpenJDK and GCJ -- and it still takes a very
>>>> perceptible amount of time to open files. Here's a video:
>>>>     http://www6.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/~foster/eclipse.ogg
>>> Hmm.  What about opening a second .java file?  Once the JDT UI plugins
>>> are (lazily) loaded they should be much faster.
>> I thought that would be true too, but unfortunately it doesn't get
>> much faster when opening subsequent files. And all editors seem to be
>> equally slow, including the plain-text editor. I'll try this at home
>> tonight on my laptop and see if it happens there too; might be
>> something weird on this computer.
> 
> Update: turns out it's a problem with GTK printing (and possibly a
> slow-ish print server on my local network). The problem goes away when
> I do either of the following things:
> - add -Dorg.eclipse.swt.internal.gtk.disablePrinting to eclipse.ini
> after -vmargs
> - remove the ServerName directive from /etc/cups/client.conf
> 
> More details in
>     https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=153936
> 
> Just in case anyone else sees this issue ...

Thanks very much, that was a real mystery.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=346903 seems still to be open,
but there are patches.

Andrew.