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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.
On Thursday 19 June 2003 14:29, Martin wrote:
Is there anything to be done to speed up OpenOffice at start up?
Thx, Martin
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/1931223&mode=thread&tid=51 Try this link Martin - that will at least get rid of the splash screen - dont know if that makes it faster Tim
Thank you all for your suggestions, I'm going to
install oooqs and hope it's going to make it better.
Martin
--- tim
On Thursday 19 June 2003 14:29, Martin wrote:
Is there anything to be done to speed up OpenOffice at start up?
Thx, Martin
http://newsforge.com/article.pl?sid=03/04/22/1931223&mode=thread&tid=51
Try this link Martin - that will at least get rid of the splash screen - dont know if that makes it faster
Tim
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I've just installed the beta...looks a lot better, and also starts a litle faster. Regards, Sourian On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 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. -- Sourian
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).
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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/20/03 10:18 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone."
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.
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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/20/03 11:37 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "If the aborigine drafted an I.Q. test, all of Western civilization would presumably flunk it." - Stanley Garn
SuSE sent out via YOU a new kernel for SMP boxes (you gotta love when you PC freezes on YOU update but it was the kernel). It still has the same problem with OOo and heavy CPU users in background at nice 19. I am using SuSE kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP. On Friday 20 June 2003 09:20 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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.
On Friday 20 June 2003 14:05 pm, Paul Benjamin wrote:
SuSE sent out via YOU a new kernel for SMP boxes (you gotta love when you PC freezes on YOU update but it was the kernel). It still has the same problem with OOo and heavy CPU users in background at nice 19. I am using SuSE kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP.
And it's not a vanilla kernel.
On Friday 20 June 2003 09:20 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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.
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On Friday 20 June 2003 21:05, Paul Benjamin wrote:
SuSE sent out via YOU a new kernel for SMP boxes (you gotta love when you PC freezes on YOU update but it was the kernel). It still has the same problem with OOo and heavy CPU users in background at nice 19. I am using SuSE kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP.
On Friday 20 June 2003 09:20 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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.
New day, new kernel and no slowness with OO. I downloaded 2.4.21 kernel source from kernel.org and compiled new kernel from it. Seems to work well, some fine-tuning still needed though. I can now run seti at nice 1 and OO starts and runs as it used to do. Thanks!
On Saturday 21 June 2003 2:30 am, Jari Luukkonen wrote:
On Friday 20 June 2003 21:05, Paul Benjamin wrote:
SuSE sent out via YOU a new kernel for SMP boxes (you gotta love when you PC freezes on YOU update but it was the kernel). It still has the same problem with OOo and heavy CPU users in background at nice 19. I am using SuSE kernel 2.4.20-64GB-SMP.
On Friday 20 June 2003 09:20 am, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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.
New day, new kernel and no slowness with OO. I downloaded 2.4.21 kernel source from kernel.org and compiled new kernel from it. Seems to work well, some fine-tuning still needed though. I can now run seti at nice 1 and OO starts and runs as it used to do.
Thanks!
Thanks for the confirmation. My (our) only worry now is that whatever it was that was added by SuSE in 2.4.21 may be already in the vanilla 2.5.xx and eventually the 2.6.x kernels. Hopefully someone finds a solution for the problem. I'm wondering if it isn't the 'pre-emption' stuff that's been added to the newer kernels. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/21/03 10:21 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Rubber bands have snappy endings!"
On Thursday 19 June 2003 07:29, Martin wrote:
Is there anything to be done to speed up OpenOffice at start up?
Thx, Martin
Are you using the quickstarter? There is no splashscreen and it comes up in under 4 seconds. (CPU 1Gb). -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. My holy cow is a penguin.
Just go to Start Applications -> System -> Tools -> OpenOffice.org Quickstarter. This will give you an icon in the System Tray that you can use to launch the OpenOffice.org components. It'll chew up about 30MB of memory (it'll give you a warning when you launch it) but it makes everything start much faster. I've got 768MB of RAM in my machine so 30MB isn't that big of a deal in my opinion. With RAM being so cheap if you don't have enough and you want to use the Quickstarter go to Best Buy and pick up a 256 or 512 MB chip. 512s are usually about 39 bucks after rebates. Vince On Thursday 19 June 2003 01:29 pm, Martin wrote:
Is there anything to be done to speed up OpenOffice at start up?
Thx, Martin
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