i'm going to time it more accurately on the Toshiba server i've got (1MHz PIII) to see what happens, it is probably quicker. Mozilla is also the other _killer_ app, and take a while. Malc On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 18:58, Michael Brown wrote:
On 8 May 2002, Malcolm Herbert wrote:
Assuming you have pretty damn beefy hardware. Takes 90 seconds to start on a P2/300 192MB RAM. good point, its as bloaty as M$, but the second time you load it (on my P75 16Mb terminal) it loads really quickly ( < 10s ), the server has 1Gb memory though
What processor speed on the server? We found on an otherwise unloaded system that second-time load speeds were around 3s with StarOffice 5.2 (1GHz Intel, 1GB RAM) and are down to 1-2s a few months later with OpenOffice (1.7GHz Intel, 1.5GB RAM).
If you preload OpenOffice during user logon (asynchronously, so that it doesn't slow down the desktop appearing) then you should be able to get perceived zero load times. This is the same trick that MS Office uses under Windows.
No, don't ask me how to do it - it's on the ToDo list. I know it's possible but I don't know the details.
Michael
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-linux-uk-schools-help@suse.com --
Malcolm Herbert Red Hat Europe t: +44 1483 734955 m: +44 7720 079845 --------------------------------------