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[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Eberhard Roloff wrote:
> James Knott wrote:
>   
> > Donald D Henson wrote:
> >     
> > > Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up
> > > the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to
> > > it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting
> > > icons on the quicklaunch panel. Does anyone else remember such a
> > > discussion or am I just going nuts in my old age? Thanks for any assistance.
> > >   
> > >       
> > IIRC, there's a separate RPM that has to be installed for the
> > Quickstarter.  On my system, the first time starting OpenOffice after a
> > reboot takes less than 3 seconds, after that, less than 2s.
> >
> >
> >     
> And as a matter of principle, I never install the Quickstarter.
>
> Although I am using 2 GB of RAM, I definitely see no benefit in
> sacrifising memory for something that I might _poosibly_ need to start
> during the day.
>
> And when I start OOorg it admittedly takes a little longer, but the time
> it takes then, is much less than the time I need to read this mail.
>
>   

You're not sacrificing memory.  Should you fill that 2 GB, the least 
recently used stuff will be sent to swap.  Linux does not have all the 
issues that Windows does and works far more efficiently.


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