On Jan 2, 7:25 pm, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> ____/ Tom Shelton on Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:14 : \____
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> > On 2008-01-02, Roy Schestowitz <newsgro...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> ____/ Ewok on Wednesday 02 January 2008 11:17 : \____
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> >>> 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.
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> >>> Your computer P4, 3.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and fast SATA
> >>> My computer AMD Duron, 1,3 GHz, 1 GB RAM and IDE
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> >>> We could guestimate that your computer is roughly 3 times as fast as
> >>> my is. You say that it takes 12 seconds to cold launch open office on
> >>> your computer. It took 3 seconds on my computer. I just clocked it.
> >>> That is 4 times faster than on your computer. Since I use linux and
> >>> you use windows, I guess that, that would explain the difference. That
> >>> would make linux 12 times faster than windows.
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> >> OOo can be launched (from a 'cold' state) within just a few seconds on this
> >> old PC that I use. It's very fast.
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> >> ...Too bad for those who still use Windows because _even_ if they choose
> >> Free open source, they are treated like second-class citizens.
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> > If this ends up being a duplicate - forgive me. I had a problem posting
> > the original - and I wasn't sure if it had worked. So, I reconstructed
> > the post:
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> > Define "a few"? Here are my system stats (fresh reboot to ensure a cold
> > start):
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> > tom@bob ~ $ uname -a
> > Linux bob 2.6.21-gentoo-r4 #5 PREEMPT Mon Dec 3 14:02:36 MST 2007 i686
> > Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1400MHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
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> > tom@bob ~ $ uptime
> > 04:01:12 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.24, 0.15
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> > tom@bob ~ $ cat /proc/cpuinfo
> > processor : 0
> > vendor_id : GenuineIntel
> > cpu family : 6
> > model : 11
> > model name : Intel(R) Celeron(TM) CPU 1400MHz
> > stepping : 1
> > cpu MHz : 1392.412
> > cache size : 256 KB
> > fdiv_bug : no
> > hlt_bug : no
> > f00f_bug : no
> > coma_bug : no
> > fpu : yes
> > fpu_exception : yes
> > cpuid level : 2
> > wp : yes
> > flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge
> > mca cmov pat pse36 mmx fxsr sse
> > bogomips : 2814.99
> > clflush size : 32
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> > tom@bob ~ $ cat /proc/meminfo
> > MemTotal: 513800 kB
> > MemFree: 333484 kB
> > Buffers: 10784 kB
> > Cached: 92032 kB
> > SwapCached: 0 kB
> > Active: 87928 kB
> > Inactive: 63372 kB
> > HighTotal: 0 kB
> > HighFree: 0 kB
> > LowTotal: 513800 kB
> > LowFree: 333484 kB
> > SwapTotal: 500464 kB
> > SwapFree: 500464 kB
> > Dirty: 12 kB
> > Writeback: 0 kB
> > AnonPages: 48504 kB
> > Mapped: 40628 kB
> > Slab: 11352 kB
> > SReclaimable: 5096 kB
> > SUnreclaim: 6256 kB
> > PageTables: 1156 kB
> > NFS_Unstable: 0 kB
> > Bounce: 0 kB
> > CommitLimit: 757364 kB
> > Committed_AS: 188928 kB
> > VmallocTotal: 507896 kB
> > VmallocUsed: 69296 kB
> > VmallocChunk: 438020 kB
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> > Cold start:
> > tom@bob ~ $ time oowriter
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> > real 0m19.605s
> > user 0m0.067s
> > sys 0m0.087s
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> > Now, if there is an instance already loaded, a second instance takes
> > about half a second:
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> > tom@bob ~ $ time oowriter
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> > real 0m0.582s
> > user 0m0.057s
> > sys 0m0.077s
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> > A second start with no instances running:
> > tom@bob ~ $ time oowriter
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> > real 0m19.446s
> > user 0m0.063s
> > sys 0m0.080s
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> > Yeah, it starts in a few seconds on my old pc as well - a few being
> > about 20 seconds.
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> Very odd. Which version of OOo is it and what did you do to it? ;-)
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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.
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Tom Shelton
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