[Gllug] Re: Memory usage

[Doug Winter]

Bruce Richardson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 01:33:43AM +0100, Tethys wrote:
>>*How*? My PC is anything but slow:
>> [snip]
>>Yet for me OO.o writer takes 22 seconds from cold, or 13 seconds if
>>cached.
> 
> I get much better results than that on a rather less highly-specced
> PowerBook running Debian/PPC.  On that laptop, OO typically takes 5
> seconds to load (and only slightly longer the first time).  I don't have
> a "desktop environment", just Ion, so I don't think shared libraries can
> be the difference.  I don't even have prelink installed, so I don't know
> what explains the difference in speed.

Same here - running OO *in a chroot* (since I run a 64-bit desktop, and
OO doesn't like that), it takes only a couple of seconds to start on a
3200+ athlon64.

I'm sure it is bloated (and probably pretty awful) but those startup
times of Tet's seem quite excessive.

d.

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