Bug#372182: debian eclipse is much slower than original eclipse

[Daniel R.]

Package: eclipse
Severity: important


I have had eclipse (downloaded from www.eclipse.org, directly) installed 
on my /opt/eclipse directory for some time, along with Sun's java 5 
(update 6) sdk (debian-packaged with java-package), and it worked correctly.
The response time was acceptable.

Yesterday eclipse packages became available to debian testing and I
installed them. Of course, it also installed the corresponding GNU JVM 
packages debian-eclipse uses by default.

Both versions of eclipse I had now in my machine were the same: 3.1.2. 
The only difference I noticed in UI was the memory / garbage collector icon 
in debian-eclipse version (not present in original one).

I installed onto /usr/share/eclipse the same additional plugins I had 
installed and working in the /opt/eclipse version:
 - emf-sdo-xsd-SDK-2.1.2.zip
 - GEF-SDK-3.1.1.zip
 - jadclipse_3.1.0.jar
 - JEM-SDK-1.1.0.1.zip
 - VE-runtime-1.1.0.1.zip
 - wtp-sdk-R-1.0.2-200604280245.zip

I removed all eclipse's configuration directories in my home account, and
started it worked apparently correctly, but loaded and ran much slower than 
my original version. I tried changing the JVM used to Sun's JVM in preferences, 
rerun eclipse, but it did not solve the problem.

I removed all eclipse's conf. dirs. again and started my /opt/eclipse version,
and it run smoothly (as Java can be) as it always did. Therefore, I have
uninstalled debian-eclipse packages, and the dependency-related GNU JVM 
packages.

I guess there is a problem with the way debian-eclipse is compiled or 
configured.


I think this problem is important for package's usability.


Thanks.


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15-1-686
Locale: LANG=es_ES at euro, LC_CTYPE=es_ES at euro (charmap=ISO-8859-15)