On 2008-01-03, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ____/ Ewok on Thursday 03 January 2008 11:22 : \____
>
>> On Jan 3, 5:27 am, Tom Shelton <tom_shel...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> On Jan 2, 7:25 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> > ____/ Tom Shelton on Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:14 : \____
>>>
>>> > > On 2008-01-02, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > >> ____/ Ewok on Wednesday 02 January 2008 11:17 : \____
>>>
>>> > >>> On Dec 29 2007, 2:39 am, "DFS" <nospam@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> > >>>> It takes 12 seconds to cold launch on my P4, 3.0ghz system w/ 2gb of
>>> > >>>> RAM and
>>> > >>>> a fast SATA drive. It's pure OSS crapooolllaaaa.
>>>
>>> > >>> Your computer P4, 3.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and fast SATA
>>> > >>> My computer AMD Duron, 1,3 GHz, 1 GB RAM and IDE
>>>
<snip>
>>> > > Yeah, it starts in a few seconds on my old pc as well - a few being
>>> > > about 20 seconds.
>>>
>>> > Very odd. Which version of OOo is it and what did you do to it? ;-)
>>>
>>> OOo 2.3.1. What did I do to it? Nothing. I installed it from
>>> source:
>>>
>>> emerge -av openoffice
>>>
>>> Here are my CFLAGS from /etc/make.conf
>>> CFLAGS="-O2 -march=pentium3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
>>>
>>> > On this 1.8GHz machine, with RAM fully occupied (therefore OOo needs to
>>> > resort to paging), OOo just takes a few seconds to launch for the first
>>> > time. Don't ask me how. I haven't a clue what you did.
>>>
>>> Again - define few. I showed you my times, lets see yours.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Tom Shelton
>>
>> I have twice your memory, but approximately your processor, so it
>> should take about the same time. Mine takes 3 seconds. I googled start
>> up on open office and came with the following tip.
>>
>> Tools menu, options
>> Memory under OpenOffice.org
>> Change:
>> Undo
>> Number of steps to 25
>> Graphics cache
>> Memory per object 2.0 MB
>> Remove from memory after 00:05
>> Cache for inserted objects
>> Number of objects 15
>> Mark OpenOffice.org quickstarter
>
> I think I once read this tip in Linux Journal (Tom Adelstein?) or Linux.com
> (Bruce Byfield?). Either way, I made no adjustment to OOo. It runs with a
> GNOME-ish (GTK) theme under KDE, which means it has to load some extra libs in
> KDE, yet it takes just seconds to run without any preloading. As I said, don't
> ask me how, but I'm not lying. It takes me a little longer than 3 seconds
> because my RAM and swap is always nearly full (I multitask with little memory
> available).
>
>> I didn't need to do this, but it may help, to get down the start up
>> time.
>>
>> /Your friendly neighbourhood Ewok
>
> Tom Shelton is quite polite and intelligent, but he is usually here just to
> pour cold water on GNU/Linux, so prejudice should be justified. Suspicion
> rather...
>
You still haven't posted your times Roy... You make vauge statements
about it only taking a "few seconds", and "a little longer then 3
seconds", but you don't give an acutal time. Why?
--
Tom Shelton
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