[Gllug] Re: Memory usage

[Richard Huxton]

Tethys wrote:
> Peter Grandi writes:
> 
>> Well, OOo is a lot less bloatware than some complain about (here
>> OOo 1.1.5 starts in 10-12 seconds from cold and 2-3 seconds if
>> it is already a bit cached, and this is a pretty low end PC).
> 
> *How*? My PC is anything but slow:

> Yet for me OO.o writer takes 22 seconds from cold, or 13 seconds if
> cached. This is on FC4 (openoffice.org-writer-1.9.125-1.1.0.fc4).
> I can only assume that you're running a desktop environment that
> already uses some of the same shared libraries as OO.o. It really
> is bloatware.

Hmm - I'm on a 2GHz AMD with 1GB of RAM, and I'm seeing 10-12 seconds 
too (for OOo2). Now I just switched desktop distros from Fedora (2) to 
Ubuntu (5.10) and startup seems noticably quicker, although I didn't 
time it on FC2.

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