Jeff Vian wrote:
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.
I didn't force it. It's a (painful) fact of life for me. In fact,
when I browse the web, I often don't look at a document if it's
.doc format just because OO will take so long to load.
AMD 3000+ with 1gb memory and tons of services running concurrently
including mysql, postgresql, httpd, providing print services, and
others.
CPU is not the problem, as my system stays loaded only about 3% or so.
I'm pretty sure it's due to swap and virtual. From top...
Mem: 248088k total, 242384k used, 5704k free, 10280k buffers
Swap: 524120k total, 221064k used, 303056k free, 41596k cached
Only 5.7MB free. Doing another top, and sorting by memory ("M" command)
I get
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
762 jmccarty 16 0 133m 48m 14m S 0.0 20.2 66:48.74
thunderbird-bin
28320 jmccarty 15 0 182m 48m 13m S 0.0 19.9 24:16.30 mozilla-bin
4159 root 15 0 184m 29m 5740 S 1.3 12.1 955:48.61 X
4536 jmccarty 15 0 34376 11m 4592 S 0.3 4.8 4:16.79 gnome-terminal
So my mailer and web browser use *lots* of memory. After starting OO,
top looks like this...
Mem: 248088k
total, 243184k used, 4904k free, 8540k buffers
Swap: 524120k total, 234580k used, 289540k free, 61244k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2468 jmccarty 15 0 182m 50m 33m S 0.0 20.8 0:07.62 soffice.bin
762 jmccarty 16 0 133m 41m 12m S 0.0 17.2 66:55.95
thunderbird-bin
28320 jmccarty 15 0 182m 31m 9548 S 0.0 13.0 24:16.36 mozilla-bin
4159 root 15 0 185m 21m 4504 S 9.3 8.8 955:52.11 X
4536 jmccarty 15 0 34376 9428 3680 S 6.7 3.8 4:17.86 gnome-terminal
So my guess is that the mailer (Thunderbird) got rolled to virtual,
and that rolling to virtual and pulling in OO takes 58 seconds
because of that.
Mike
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