On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 15:52, Tony Dietrich wrote: > 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. > OO2 - 7 secs to a useable document. > And thats with a terminal window with 4 subwindows, including two ssh terminal > windows monitoring network installs, gFTP, Quanta, KDevelop, GIMP, Xpdf, > firefox and Kontact running open windows, named, mysqld, httpd postfix and > dovecot running in addition to the basic background services that are > required, such as cups. > Its a 2.4gHz Athlon box. > > Something wrong with your 58 second machine there Mike :-( Maybe this is the first load after a reboot or he doesn't have much RAM. I just timed 7 seconds on a 2.4 gHZ P4 with some other stuff running. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
