>> Small adition: I have rebooted my machine and run some tests again in >> GNU/Linux (Ubuntu): performance is good for 2.0.17 and 2.0.18! I have not >> even moved the files. >So the whole problem went away thanks to the reboot?
No, it didn't. I meant that the issue happens in Windows but it doesn't occur in GNU/Linux (performance is OK in GNU/Linux, same machine, same jars, and even same file system). I have tried with openjdk version "1.8.0_222" and java version "1.8.0_121" in GNU/Linux. Esteban