The 03.05.29 at 08:41, H du Plooy wrote:
Thanks Fred, that's exactly what I did, installed OOo 1.1Beta. Works smooth as silk if I stop Setiathome, but remains unusuable if seti or anything cpu intensive is running. This in itself isn't so bad, except that I didn't have this problem under 8.1 and 8.0, where I had seti runing with nice=1 all the time and OOo was working smoothly.
OO 1.0.3 gets very slow and unresponsive - under my SuSE 8.1 - when I connect to Internet with a modem and start downloading mail, which is CPU intensive because of viruscan and spamassassin filters. However, it is only OO that feels slow, the rest of the system stays crispy. And this is a SuSE 8.1... My guess is that OO needs very fast response from the CPU; maybe it uses some kind of polling loop. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson