Eberhard Roloff wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
James Knott wrote:
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.
I have only 1G of RAM and very seldom ever swap anything. The last time I can recall worrying about the amount of ram used by dormant program bits and pieces was programming array manipulations on my HP-28S with 32K of memory. I don't know how much oo quicklaunch takes, but I have not been affected by its absence. YMMV
OK, it does not do any harm, instead it has some positive effect..
Nevertheless please allow me to rephrase: No matter how much RAM it takes or how much RAM I will (not) have, I never preload anything, just on the basis that I might possibly use it some time later on.
Well, one could claim you're wasting RAM when it could be holding something, instead of empty. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org