OpenOffice Sluggishness

[Bob Raymond]

On Wednesday 11 December 2002 04:10 am, Net Llama! wrote:
> On 12/10/02 19:56, Bob Raymond wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Well, sure its more fun to compile, but i'm suggesting that something in
> your build is horked.  At least with the binary you can rule out some
> variables.  The binary has always ran just fine for me on the 4 boxes
> where i've got it installed.

All right, if the ice is not so bad my father can get to work, I'll ask him to 
download it there.  Thanks


					Bob Raymond