On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 21:43 +0000, Andy Green wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > > from its local disc. I just clicked on the "OpenOffice.org > > Writer Word processor" icon on the task bar at the bottom > > of my screen, and it was 58 seconds before it was ready > > to take a keystroke, on my 2.71 GHz Linux machine. On my > > 400MHz Win98 machine, Word loads in less than 5 secs. > LOL. And windows98 with the corresponding Word is much smaller than the current Word or OOo. Also, I am interested in how you forced OO to take that long to load. Mine takes <10 seconds to load OOo 2.X from click to typing. AMD 3000+ with 1gb memory and tons of services running concurrently including mysql, postgresql, httpd, providing print services, and others. My other box, AMD 2400+ with 512mb ram and similarly configured services takes about the same amount of time (actually only 9 seconds). (This one was tested from a new login and that was the first thing started to make sure that caching did not have an affect on the first time measured) > What does > > cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep MHz > > say on your fast box? If that isn't broken (one laptop here reacts to > cpuspeed by being permanently at the lowest frequency), what's your HDD > like on that box? How many fonts installed? 58 seconds sounds all wrong. > > -Andy > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
