At 11:09 AM -0400 10/18/05, Jorge Fábregas wrote: >Hello everyone, > >I just discovered the reason why OO.o starts very slow on my FC4 laptop. If >I'm connected to the LAN and I start Writer, it takes about 25 seconds. When >I click Writer, you'll see the loading 'progress bar' and it will stop about >20% of the bar. It will stay there for 15 or 18 seconds and then it will >resume until it finally loads. > >I then do: > >service network stop > >I do the same thing and it starts in about 3 seconds. oK, I know it's the 2nd >time I'm doing it (it's mainly cached) but if I do: > >service network start > >and I try it again, it will take 20-25 seconds. I tried using ethereal but I >don't see any strange traffic. I'm trying to figure out what OO.o is trying >to do while starting that takes so much time (when network is enabled) but so >far nothing. > >Any ideas? A failed DNS query might take that amount of time. Say OOo wants to connect somewhere that doesn't exist, and doesn't mind when it fails. ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>