On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 14:38, Edward wrote: > Trevor Smith wrote: > > > I muddled through for about half a year with FC1 on a PIII 500 with 386meg of > > ram and an old slow hard drive. Open Office worked but it was slooooooow to > > open and even the odd save of a file was slow. > > > > I bought a new laptop (AMD Athlon XP-M 2800+ at 2.133GHz) with 512meg that has > > a newer, presumably faster hard drive. When I installed FC1, open office > > suddenly worked WONDERFULLY. It was fast enough that I didn't even care about > > startup time. Not as fast as MS Office on WinXP, of course, but fast enough > > to be called "fast". > > > > Then I upgraded to FC2 and the newer open office that is included with that > > distribution. Suddenly open office was sloooooow to start up again. :-( I > > have updated open office and everything else a few times since then but > > nothing changes. Did you try running prelink?? check /etc/prelink.conf /etc/sysconfig/prelink > > 20 seconds (to load the spreadsheet main window) + 4 seconds (to load the > > actual very plain vanilla spreadsheet I use to keep track of my budget). 10 seconds (or 15) to open. Then again, I"m running on cpuspeed of dynamic. (600mhz) > > > > This is the kind of slowness I used to see with my PIII 500! Anyone have any > > ideas why this is so slow, when FC1+older Open office was faster? Is it an OO > > issue or an FC issue? Or a kernel issue (using kernel-2.6.8-1.521)? > > The only thing I can think of is to check your hdparm settings. Yeah.. > Oh, and just because it is a new hard drive in that notebook, don't > assume it is faster than your desktop. Mostof the time it won't be > Notebook hard drives supplied > with the factory notebooks are usually notoriously slow. Factory installed yeah. I do agree.. > 4500 RPM or so > and no cache to speak of. Please. All HDs come with at least 2MB cache (nowadays) > > You CAN get 7200RPM 8Mb cache ones now but I've never seen a notebook > come with one as they are more expensive. You can get one for VERY much more expensive though.. I'm running on an Hitachi/IBM 5400rpm 80GB 8MB Cache and I get /dev/hda: Timing buffer-cache reads: 1284 MB in 2.00 seconds = 641.46 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 106 MB in 3.05 seconds = 34.78 MB/sec -- Ow Mun Heng Fedora GNU/Linux Core 2 on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.7-2.jul1-interactive Neuromancer 07:23:39 up 10:36, 6 users, load average: 0.47, 0.82, 1.05
