OpenOffice Sluggishness

[Bob Raymond]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 03:44 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/10/02 19:41, Bob Raymond wrote:
> > Yes, I know the program is usually slow, but what about when it is
> > unusually slow?
> >
> > I've got OpenOffice 1.0.1 compiled as of yesterday morning on my Gentoo
> > 1.4rc* system with Portage 2.0.45, GCC 3.2.1, Glibc 2.3.1, and Blackdown
> > JDK 1.4.1beta, kernel 2.5.51, and it was compiled under 2.5.50bk5.  My
> > hardware is Athlon 1.4, EPoX 8K5A3+ (VIA KT333) mainboard, 512MB PC3200
> > DDR from Corsair's XMS series.  The only reason I'm using the 2.5.xx
> > series of kernels is that they seem to have the best support for my
> > Highpoint 374 controller.
> >
> > The program loads the main window, and spends a good minute or two
> > drawing it. It spends the time redrawing it every time I switch to
> > another app.  I've never gotten far enough to be able to type anything
> > because it is sooo sluggish.  I've tried setting the priority on the
> > process to as low as -13 or so, and nothing helps.  Anything I might try
> > to make the beast useable?  The prog. worked on my previous (because it
> > got hosed) Gentoo install, where it was compiled with Blackdown 1.3.1,
> > GCC 3.2, and Glibc 2.2.5.
>
> I'm wondering why you feel the need to compile it in the first place?
> Does the precompiled version run as slowly for you?

I have no idea, never having downloaded it.  If someone wants to download it 
and stick it on a CD... I downloaded OpenOffice 1.0.0 source and it took a 
good 20 hours just for the download, and the binary version is no smaller- 
and this is Gentoo, where while there is an openoffice-bin ebuild, it's more 
fun to compile.

						Thanks

						Bob Raymond