Posted by
Jonathan Jackson-2 on
Sep 30, 2008; 1:58pm
URL: http://imagej.273.s1.nabble.com/Re-IJ-under-linux-performance-problem-tp3694933p3694934.html
Mike,
Thanks for the suggestions.
>I have no particular workaround for this, except to disable desktop
>effects (compiz) if you have them running.
>I feel your pain though; it takes time to collapse all the taskbar icons
>and then expand them out again, which is noticable (and distracting)
>when you're working on a bunch of images.
>
>Java / Gnome issues are being addressed to some extent by Sun, though a
>bit slowly (I filed this report some months ago...
>
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6752009 )
I've added a 'vote' to this bug as I think it's important that java / compiz
eventually work together properly.
>You could try a development version of JDK7 and see if the bug is still
>there:
>
https://jdk7.dev.java.net/I downloaded jdk-7-ea-bin-b36-linux-x64-25_sep_2008.bin and tried running
ImageJ with that, but it crashes out horribly...
I'll go back to 1.5 for the time being.
cheers,
Jon
>
>Jonathan Jackson wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I recently started using java 1.6 with ImageJ on linux and am having some
>> issues that were discussed on the list about a year ago - has anyone found a
>> work-around?
>>
>> It seems that when I run a menu command, like Multiply, all open images that
>> are on the task bar (Gnome, not ImageJ) are 'closed' one by one, until there
>> is just a single ImageJ window listed on the task bar. Then the Dialog box
>> pops up. Once the command is completed, all images are listed again on the
>> task bar. When ImageJ is running on the local machine, there's a fraction of
>> a second delay per open image, but when it's running on a remote server, the
>> delay is a whole second per image; just a little bit impractical!
>>
>> On the other hand, some things, like Sync Windows, work much faster under
>> Java 1.6
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Jon
>>