SO refusing to start

[Roger Oberholtzer]

On Mon, 2004-02-09 at 18:48, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Michael Hipp wrote:
> 
> >> Configure the Memory category ---> Tools --> Options... menu,. Up the 
> >> graphics cache to 15 MB for "Use for OpenOffice.org" and 4.0 MB 
> >> memory per object, instead of the default values of 9 MB and 2.4 MB, 
> >> This cut down the initial load times on my machine. Usually loads 
> >> between 3-7 seconds, depending on the existing memory and system 
> >> load. Worked for me.
> >
> >
> > Thanks. Made the settings. Maybe a small improvement - not sure. But 
> > doesn't seem to have hurt anything so I'll leave it there.
> 
> On my Celery 1gHz/ATA66/384 MB box OO Writer takes 14 seconds to start 
> (no other apps running.)
> Subsequent starts (after close) take 8-9 seconds.  Starting OO Writer 
> (after an initial start and close) while Mozilla is running increases 
> start time to 12 seconds.

I get 15 seconds until the progress box shows, and then an additional 20
seconds until the editor is up. This when running KDE and Evolution at
the same time on:

	1.4 GHz P4 with 256 MB RAM and oddles of swap.

The start a second time takes 15 seconds.

Oddly, all my windows seems to be slow to start lately. It is not a DNS
thing (as I can see) as I can resolve an address immediately. I suspect
too little RAM. But the slowness did not come about after any obvious
upgrade. This is on an up-to-date Gentoo system. No funny optimizations.
My wife is starting to make snide remarks...


-- 
Roger Oberholtzer <roger.oberholtzer at surbrunn.net>