Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3729 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 June 2003 11:30 am, Jari Luukkonen wrote:
> On Friday 20 June 2003 17:20, Bruce Marshall wrote:
> > On Friday 20 June 2003 5:32 am, Jari Luukkonen wrote:
> > > 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).
> >
> > I am running a vanilla 2.4.21  kernel and these problems seem to
> > have gone away.  Whether the kernel upgrade from SuSE will fix the
> > problems, I can't say.
> >
> > I do feel that perhaps SuSE had added a patch to their kernel at
> > 2.4.20 which caused these problems because I was running 2.4.20 on
> > 8.0 and did not have the problems.  In otherwords, I have never had
> > any slowness with OO (or SO) while running a vanilla kernel.
>
> Thanks,  I will compile new kernel and see how things are after that.
> I hope that it helps.

It should help....  I set seti back to nice=2  (from 19) and it's running 
like it used to on 8.0.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx  Bellaire, MI         06/20/03 
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