Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Jari Luukkonen <jari.luukkonen@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 19 June 2003 21:36, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> On Thursday 19 June 2003 14:29, Martin wrote:
> > Is there anything to be done to speed up OpenOffice at
> > start up?
> >
> > Thx, Martin
>
> Yes and no.  OO is a large appl and it will always take awhile to start
> up.. and that all depends on your hardware.
>
> But I've also found that the 2.4.20 kernel in the 8.2 distro has some patch
> applied that seems to make OO slow down drastically.  There has been a lot
> of discussion about this on the list.
>
> You don't mention which release you are running.  I solved the problem by
> upgrading to a vanilla 2.4.21  kernel.

I am also having problems with OO 1.0.2 and cpu-hungry applications like 
seti@home. I am running background  s@h at nice 19 and OO starts and runs 
slowly, but remains useable. If I renice s@h to default 1 OO can not even 
start.
I have strong feeling that this has something to do with java, because if I 
run s@h, some java applets dont work anymore with web browser. Usually these 
non-working applets use mpeg-stream. Stopping s@h immediately restores 
applets (and OO) to normal working state.

Has anyone solved this kind of problem with kernel upgrade? 
I am using Blackdown-1.4.1-01 java plug-in in Galeon 1.2.8.
Problem seen with Konqueror  also.
Kernel is stock SuSE8.2  (2.4.20-4GB).