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