[Gllug] openoffice takes 6min to start on P4?

[John Southern]

On Wednesday 02 Apr 2003 1:45 pm, Steve Nicholson wrote:
> OK, no I haven't looke anywhere else for this yet it's just another
> issue I'm slowly working through on my new desk top.
>
> OpenOffice takes over 6 minutes to open (I timed it with my wall
> clock!), doesn't matter whether it's writer or one of the other parts.
> Now this is slower than on my AMD 500Mhz box I was trying to escape.
> This is a bit embarassing on my shiny new P4 1.8GHz, 512MB RAM
> motherboard running on Mandrake 9.1
>
> Actually I think it's a bit unstable too as it's crashed a couple of
> times.  I'm going to look on the Mandrake lists but thought I would
> mention it here.  For anyone that's interested a basic test on tracking
> changes on documents in openoffice and ms word seemed to work ok which
> will hopefully simplify my life.
>
> have a great day.
> Steve.
1.2GHz AMD, 128MB,  Mandy 9.1
18 seconds for StarOffice 6.0
26 seconds for Ooo
Does crash on spell checking. Only way around is to first save, then reload 
and spell check.
Hate the auto format function though.

Version control fine here too.

Regards
John


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