Bug 262987

Description Martin Hajduch 2009-01-29 18:41:18 EST

This is very strange problem. I have Ganymede running on two different machines at home. One is relatively slow one - but the speed of IDE is - not surprising, compared to the speed of other applications on the same system.

The other one is Intel 3Ghz quad core Duo 2, with 4Gb RAM and Raid1 disk array. So it should be flying. However, opening ANY file (even a text file in simple text editor) takes seconds. First, new tab is drawn with the editor name (i.e. Text editor, or Java editor) - then nothing happens for 2-4 seconds and finally (and suddenly) the tab is renamed to filename and focused.

I tried creating new user, logging in in failsafe (pure xterm) session, creating brand new workspace, one textfile inside - and the same happens.

No messages in log, neither on the stdout/err.

There is no CPU load during those seconds, it looks like Eclipse is doing nothing but waiting.

After long hours of experimenting and searching the web, I found this:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=53827

So I tried it and ... guess what ! It helps !

The machine which shows the problem has only eth0 configured to static 192.168. IP address, has absolutely no networking problems, everything behaves normally, etc.
However, disabling eth0 (keeping only localhost) and restarting Eclipse makes wonder. After it is restarted and running fast, I can even enable eth0 again and it still works great. Only when starting with eth0 enabled, it falls into the 'slow mode', whatever it is.

Any ideas ?

Anything I could do in order to produce more useful diagnostic info ?