Re: Slowness

Andre Southgate wrote:

> Hi There!
>
> I have a P4 1.6Ghz with 512MB, and Suse Pro 9.3 and everything seems

> really sluggish. Its KDE, and it takes 13 seconds to open Word
Processor
> Open Office which by comparison winword on that machine with XP
(with
> every fisher price ON) takes 1 second.
>
> Is that normal?

It just took 17 seconds to open an Open Office Word Processor document
on my
1.6MHz SUSE 9.2 system. Than is about what it usually takes,

As you say, this is pretty slow compared to MS Word. In my view this
sluggishness of Open Office is a substantial problem. Although I use
it at
home, it really would not be usable with the very large documents we
have
at work.

Apart from Open Office, I don't find the rest of my Linux desktop
sluggish.
KDE takes a while to start, but then I only start it once a day!

Firefox, KMail, KNode and KDevelop all perform just fine.

--
Chris Gordon-Smith
London
http://www.simsoup.info

Chris Gordon-Smith wrote:
> Andre Southgate wrote:
>
>
>>Hi There!
>>
>>I have a P4 1.6Ghz with 512MB, and Suse Pro 9.3 and everything seems

>>really sluggish. Its KDE, and it takes 13 seconds to open Word
Processor
>>Open Office which by comparison winword on that machine with XP
(with
>>every fisher price ON) takes 1 second.
>>
>>Is that normal?
>
>
> It just took 17 seconds to open an Open Office Word Processor
document on my
> 1.6MHz SUSE 9.2 system. Than is about what it usually takes,
>
> As you say, this is pretty slow compared to MS Word. In my view this

> sluggishness of Open Office is a substantial problem. Although I use
it at
> home, it really would not be usable with the very large documents we
have
> at work.
>
> Apart from Open Office, I don't find the rest of my Linux desktop
sluggish.
> KDE takes a while to start, but then I only start it once a day!
>
> Firefox, KMail, KNode and KDevelop all perform just fine.
>
Hi Chris,
One reason that Word is fast on MS is because I believe some of the
required DLLS are preloaded into memory--competing for physical memory

even when you dont need them. Did you know there are settings in Open

Office to make it faster to work with? I fact you can make your entire

Linux desktop faster by tweaking a few things. Linux is very flexible

like that. YOu can bend it at will however you like--not so with MS.

Also consider if you are opening a MS Word doc which will require a
translation first to OO format for dispay to you. So to be fair, open
a
native format OO document. I think you will find that after making
some
adjustments that the speed is very comparible. One thing you should
notice is that the Linux desktop is better at a fraction of the cost
of
the Windows. Check this out:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8308

Be careful and don't get a speeding ticket

Think Open--Think free.
--
Kenneth W. Zahorec
<kzahorec@neo.rr.com>
Thunderbird on SuSe Linux Pro v9.2

Chris Gordon-Smith wrote:

> As you say, this is pretty slow compared to MS Word. In my view this

> sluggishness of Open Office is a substantial problem. Although I use
it at
> home, it really would not be usable with the very large documents we
have
> at work.

Have you tried Open Office under Windows, by the way? It seems a fair
bit
faster than under KDE, even without the default "quickstarter" thing
running
-- and that improves it quite a lot, too.

Sad but true.

M

--
"It's the small gaps between the rain that count,
and learning how to live amongst them."
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