Well... like I suspected... the explanation was to simple... The hamster stuff :-) I tried to load acroread with beagle and zen turned on/off, I timed it with time command and I checked the running processes with ps -A and aux. Acroread, in the first run tooked 2 min to load and after was very irregular, so it was a obvious case of hogging. Solution: uninstall the SuSE version, download and install the Adobe version (has only 45Mb instead the 90Mb of SuSE). Now, I don't bother to count the time it takes to load... Might be that SuSE has good reasons to alter the original packages, but, I must confess, don't see an obvious reason for that. The same happens with eclipse. I use the plain download version. I only have to uncompress it to /opt and choose a java location. Lívio ----- Original Message ----- On Thursday 31 August 2006 03:13, Lívio Cipriano wrote:

Well... I just deleted my ".adobe" config dir and now loads must faster.

Mystery solved?

As you so wonderfully put it: "... the explanation can be a mystery" :)