On Friday 30 May 2003 23:39 pm, Paul Benjamin wrote:
My system is a Tyan Thunder K7 dual 1.2GHz Athlon with nViada GeForce Ti 4200 with the nVidia drivers that I got from their web site when I installed 8.2 over 8.1
The distributed client has an option that will suspend their client when a user defined process is started. I put in soffice.bin so that stops the client and lets OpenOffice run at full speed. I am currently using OpenOffice 1.1 Beta2 to see if the SuSE OO rpm was at fault. Beta2 had the same problem, it wasn't until I read this thread on the mailing list that I thought of stopping the distributed project.
I can't think of anything that SuSE is doing that all that different than the Debian kernel that I compiled on my laptop. I have a work around thanks to this mailing list but I would like to know what is really happening.
pben
I noticed the same problem (using StarOffice 6.0) when I switched to 8.2 from 8.0. NOTE: I was running the 2.4.20 kernel on 8.0 and had no problems, but that same kernel (in the 8.2 distribution) causes the problem. So SuSE must have put some added patches onto their kernel. I'm waiting for the 2.4.21 kernel to be released so maybe I can eliminate the problem.
On Friday 30 May 2003 10:04 pm, Marian Routh wrote:
There have been quite a few posts on the slowness of OO in SuSE 8.2. It would be interesting to see what, if anything, all of you have in common because I'm running OO w/SuSE 8.2 and it is perfectly responsive. It does take a tiny bit of time to open (a few seconds), but I can't see that any of the OO components behave differently than any other app - speedy. So it must be something that is different on the systems experiencing the slowness. I agree that it probably isn't an OO issue because the OO code you're running and I'm running is the same (I'm using the OO that came with 8.2 and assume you are, too). I clean-installed 8.2, using the standard AMD kernel that came with the distro, ACPI off, and no tweaks. Very standard all the way around. I don't run any distributed computing clients like Seti, so maybe that's it? What about the graphics cards involved - could the difficulty be coming from there perhaps? Mine is a Geforce 2 Ultra 64MB.
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