____/ Tom Shelton on Wednesday 02 January 2008 18:14 : \____
> On 2008-01-02, Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@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
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> OOo can be launched (from a 'cold' state) within just a few seconds on this
>> old PC that I use. It's very fast.
>>
>> ...Too bad for those who still use Windows because _even_ if they choose
>> Free open source, they are treated like second-class citizens.
>>
>
> 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:
>
> Define "a few"? Here are my system stats (fresh reboot to ensure a cold
> start):
>
> 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
>
> tom@bob ~ $ uptime
> 04:01:12 up 6 min, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.24, 0.15
>
> 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
>
> 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
>
> Cold start:
> tom@bob ~ $ time oowriter
>
> real 0m19.605s
> user 0m0.067s
> sys 0m0.087s
>
> Now, if there is an instance already loaded, a second instance takes
> about half a second:
>
> tom@bob ~ $ time oowriter
>
> real 0m0.582s
> user 0m0.057s
> sys 0m0.077s
>
> A second start with no instances running:
> tom@bob ~ $ time oowriter
>
> real 0m19.446s
> user 0m0.063s
> sys 0m0.080s
>
> 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? ;-)
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.
--
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