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

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 17:52, John Southern wrote:
> 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

1Ghz P-III - 21 secs to start OO writer. CPU use never hits 100%, it
seems to be IO bound. I'm pulling it off software RAID5 on UW-SCSI
disks, which probably accounts for the 5 second boost.

Mike.


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