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

[Adam Bower]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:42:14PM +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 07:56:11AM +0100, George F. Saxby wrote:
> > On Thursday 03 April 2003 1:19 am, you wrote:
> > > 8 seconds to start ...
> > >
> > > Athlon 2200 (1800MHz), 256Mb RAM, 40GB 5400rpm IDE. running Debian
> > > (testing/unstable)
> > >
> > > Again processor usage never hits 100%
> > 
> > Ok 28 secs on Mandy 8.2 , 1GHz amd/512 ram / 20g 5,200rpm  ata 100 disc, when 
> > this box ran that other o/s   office was 12 secs
> 
> This is the dodgiest benchmark I've ever heard of, but (against the wall
> clock) 21s/5s for first/subsequent loadings.

I would say its quite a good benchmark overall as it does cover real world
computers and gives people a feel for what there performance should either be
or could be.

Too many benchmarks are very rigid and not very useful in real world
applications.

Adam
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