On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 17:13, Mike McCarty wrote: > >>Its a 2.4gHz Athlon box. > >> > >>Something wrong with your 58 second machine there Mike :-( > > > > ---- > > take his commentary with a grain of salt and recognize that he is using > > FC-2 which I am sure few will argue was better abandoned for FC-3 > > Are you suggesting that FC4 would load it any faster? Probably but I think you have a specific problem on that machine. I've got a dual pII-450 running FC1 that starts OO in about 10 seconds. The first instance of Firefox with google as the home page takes about 5 seconds, another window about 2. Does hdparm -T -t show somewhere near 30MB/sec for buffered reads? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx