Java is something really bad for any system which uses it. At work, I 
develop using netbeans and I have everybody as the same feeling : it's 
heavy ... very very very heavy. This is due to the memory managment 
model of the java technology itself : there is no memory managment.

The best thing you can do is not to use something based on java :-/

Thierry



>> Philippe Debar schrieb:
>> I don't know about Java (there might be components of the Java system 

>> wrongly running with increased priority) but apart from that this 
>> would be extremely unusual.  Unless you are running out of memory of 
>> course - since there is nothing like priority for swapping exceeding 
>> available memory will always slow down the whole system.  Also note 
>> Gimp uses its own 'virtual memory' system so you should make sure its 

>> settings are appropriate.
> 
> 
> It's at least the combination of swap (Eclipse is very memory-hungry an
d 
> nearly eats up all of my 768Mo by itself), and 100% CPU usage (Pov).
> 
> But even then, I already ran into these conditions without getting such
 
> a slowdown. Eclipse/Java must be doing something, but I will not spend 

> any more time trying to guess what. I'll consider this a major defect 
> and will make my choice among the other editors.
> 
> 
>> You can easily test if a slowdown you experience during a POV-Ray 
>> render is due to POV-Ray 'eating up' CPU time - run it with lowest 
>> priority ('nice -19 povray' instead of 'povray') and see if this 
>> changes anything.  If not a hypothetical pause function in POV-Ray 
>> would not help either.
> 
> 
> Thanks for the tip.
> 
> 
> //Philippe

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