Bruttaly sluggish Eclipse performance in remote X
Andrew Haley
aph at redhat.com
Tue Jan 8 10:32:25 UTC 2008
Dimi Paun writes:
> Folks,
>
> I am running Fedora 8 on 3 boxes, all connected via Gb Ethernet.
> On two of the boxes (Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.4GHz, 4 GB RAM) I've
> enabled XDMCP and am logging in from the 3 via remote X. It has
> been a rough experience:
> * the default GDM screen does not have an option to invoke the
> XDMCP chooser, despite the working in gdmsetup. This caused
> great confusion until I figured that I needed to switch to
> Happy Gnome login theme.
> * performance is a bit sluggish, but bearable. However, I have
> used in University (back in 97-98) old Sun boxes that were
> doing the same over a much slower network, I was expecting
> a lot more now, given all the hardware I've thrown at it.
>
> However, the deal break has been Eclipse. I need to run this app,
> but doing so is almost impossible. Every time it opens _any_
> dialog (find, etc.) it locks hard for 10-20seconds at a time.
> Same thing happens when you dismiss the dialog. Of course, I can
> see no sign of CPU or network usage.
>
> WTH is going on?!? The app (Eclipse) works very well locally, why
> would it behave in such a fashion on the remove X? The delays are
> so big that I can't think it's doing anything, but rather that it's
> blocked somewhere waiting for a timeout of sorts.
If you ssh to the target machine and then run Eclipse, does that work
better?
Andrew.
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