Re: Eclipse on ubuntu
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 12:57:40PM +0530, Guneet Sahai wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just moved my Dev environment from a windows xp box to a ubuntu box
> (similar h/w configuration). Got everything (eclipse, ant, tomcat,
> weblogic) to work properly.
>
> However I noticed that Eclipse (version 3.1) took un-usually high amount
> of memory to load my project. Morever it was extremely slow
> (particularly when I opened a large java file in its editor). I found it
> occupying a lot of CPU (I guess for rendering) on the box.
>
> The good thing was that when I ran eclipse using the Sun's JDK (version
> 1.5.05) instead of the default free jdk shipped with ubuntu, all
> problems vanished. The memory utilization was down from 150M to 50M and
> the cpu usage was also normal.
>
> Looks like a bug in the VM to me.
No, you installed Eclipse with GCJ and forgot to install the *-gcj
packages of eclipse.
The next upload of eclipse to Debian will fix this be adding a new meta
package for this. I dont know when Ubuntu merges this then ...
Cheers,
Michael
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