Open Office takes one and a half minutes to start on my machine running Debian Testing. The machine has 1.3 GHz Athlons and 512MB RAM so I don't think that's the problem. Anyone else have a similar experience? Barry Samuels
bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk <bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk> wrote:
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Well, it takes about a minute to start here, but this machine is considerably slower than yours, so I think you've got a problem. Does "free" show all your memory? Does hdparm show DMA enabled on your disks? If you run openoffice from an xterm-like, do you get any errors on it, especially about network things? MJR
MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
Well, it takes about a minute to start here, but this machine is considerably slower than yours, so I think you've got a problem. Does "free" show all your memory?
Free gives: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 516460 430892 85568 0 34316 279872 -/+ buffers/cache: 116704 399756 Swap: 525288 43720 481568
Does hdparm show DMA enabled on your disks?
All SCSI
If you run openoffice from an xterm-like, do you get any errors on it, especially about network things?
Not a peep. I've re-timed it and it actually takes 1m 55s to reach the splash screen then another 10 seconds to completion. Barry Samuels
bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk <bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk> wrote:
I've re-timed it and it actually takes 1m 55s to reach the splash screen then another 10 seconds to completion.
This is actually quite hard to debug without seeing the machine. Do you get any "interesting" stuff happening while it starts? Does running a monitor like gkrellm show anything interesting on its graphs while loading? Here, it's the bit after the splash appears that takes the time. MJR
MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
This is actually quite hard to debug without seeing the machine. Do you get any "interesting" stuff happening while it starts? Does running a monitor like gkrellm show anything interesting on its graphs while loading? Here, it's the bit after the splash appears that takes the time.
MJR
After trying various things and as a last resort I decided to uninstall my user's local version and re-install. It now takes 10 seconds to start with the splash screen appearing almost instantly. ????????? Barry Samuels
On Wednesday 09 Oct 2002 5:25 pm, bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
MJ Ray <markj@cloaked.freeserve.co.uk> wrote:
This is actually quite hard to debug without seeing the machine. Do you get any "interesting" stuff happening while it starts? Does running a monitor like gkrellm show anything interesting on its graphs while loading? Here, it's the bit after the splash appears that takes the time.
MJR
After trying various things and as a last resort I decided to uninstall my user's local version and re-install.
It now takes 10 seconds to start with the splash screen appearing almost instantly.
?????????
Barry Samuels
I was wondering can oo.org 1.0 still do a network install like StarOffice used to ./setup -net for a global copy of the executables and librarys each user just holding their own settings files? Cheers, BJ
John Woodard <mail@johnwoodard.co.uk> wrote
I was wondering can oo.org 1.0 still do a network install like StarOffice used to ./setup -net for a global copy of the executables and librarys each user just holding their own settings files?
Cheers, BJ
That is exactly how mine is setup. Barry Samuels
Hi, On my system it usually takes a while for the first instance to open, 15 seconds, on my RedHat 8 1GHz PIII, but once the application has initialized the shared library code, subsequent loads are much faster. In the order of 2 seconds for any of the apps. Once the instance of OpenOffice has been closed there is a period of time before the shared library code is flushed from the machine and a full re-load needs to occur. Inside that window you get the same very fast loads. Once the windows has expired then you are back to the 15 second load time again. On Tue, 2002-10-08 at 16:43, bsamuels@beenthere-donethat.org.uk wrote:
Open Office takes one and a half minutes to start on my machine running Debian Testing.
The machine has 1.3 GHz Athlons and 512MB RAM so I don't think that's the problem.
Anyone else have a similar experience?
Barry Samuels
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