open office

[Frank Pirrone]

Cyber Source wrote:

>Yep, worked like a charm, Open Office now opens in approx. 9 seconds vs
>the 75 seconds it used to take.
>On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:24, Cyber Source wrote:
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>>Ok, as long as were doing time trials,
>>My machine running RedHat 8, Athlon 850mhz 256mb ram, takes 75 seconds
>>to open Open Office.
>>New install on machine running RedHat 8, Plll 500mhz 256mb ram, takes 9
>>seconds to open Open Office.
>>I also notice that the hidden folder on my machine ".openoffice" shows a
>>du of 6mb, while the new install shows the hidden folder ".openoffice"
>>of having a du of 1.4mb.
>>So as my suspicions seem correct, it must be caching info in that
>>folder. I will try and move the folder and see if the speed improves, it
>>should just create a new one.
>>On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 11:17, Frank Pirrone wrote:
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>>>Cyber Source wrote:
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>>>>Does any one else experience a HUGE wait when they open Open Office. Is
>>>>it caching information somewhere and after alot of use it takes forever
>>>>to open? I know it takes long to open even on fresh installs but this is
>>>>ridiculous. Any thoughts?
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>>>CS,
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>>>Time from initial menu click to end of load and blank page display is 19 
>>>seconds on my PIII 600 MHz RedHat 7.2 system.  Time for subsequent opens 
>>>is 7 seconds.
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>>>More info available if required.
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>>>Frank
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CS,

I cannot find such a folder on my system.  Please provide complete path 
and program version.

Interesting finding.  What was in the hidden folder?

Frank

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