On Saturday, December 31, 2005 @ 9:08 PM, Randall Schulz wrote:
Greg,
On Saturday 31 December 2005 21:51, Greg Wallace wrote:
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But if I exit an app and then call it back up, I don't want to have any "data" from the previous execution. In order to get that so called clean slate, the app has to either get the clean slate (so to speak) from disk or from cache. So, a clean copy should be in the cache ready to serve up if I try to call the app up again later in my session. At least that's the way I understand it to work in the 'doze world.
My god, what is your obsession with this?! Does the application malfunction? Have you ever seen stale data from a previous run when you re-launch? Of course not. Do you think anything that's exchanged here is going to change how long it takes OpenOffice.org (or any other program) to start up on any given invocation? I hope you don't.
If you cannot accept that these most fundamental aspects of the pertinent application and system software are correctly programmed and simply adopt the user perspective, then go out and buy some books on the principals of operating systems in general and of the Linux OS in particular and educate yourself. But all this stupid guessword and uninformed speculation is maddening (and it's made all the worse by the repeated and inane use of the inane term "'doze").
Otherwise, just as you accept that pilots and flight crews and maintenance crews know what they're doing with the airplanes you fly, I suggest you use software as if it's working until it gives you evidence that it is not.
Sheesh.
Greg Wallace
Randall Schulz
Randall: If it sounded like I was ranting I certainly didn't intend that. I think OO works fine, at least on my machine. When I entered this thread, there seemed to be a question of whether the caching done by OO was a drag on the system and there was talk of it needing to be turned off, as if it was a bad option to have in the first place (at least that's the way I read those earlier posts). I didn't think it was a bad option and didn't think it would be the cause of poor performance, unless the machine's memory was just overtaxed in general. I was simply trying to comment on that. Then, admittedly, those last few posts went off on a bit of a tangent, and I do apologize for that. I indeed feel that "these most fundamental aspects of the pertinent application and system software are correctly programmed", just as you say. Greg W