On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:11, Jim Slocomb wrote: > Hi all, > Please excuse a possibly dumb question from a newbie. I am evaluating rh8 > for a small local government and a couple of local NGOs. So far the most > significant single glitch I have encountered is the extremely slow speed of > the graphic interface. The platform is my 750mhz laptop with 256 mb ram, > default rh8 personal workstation install. > > When comparing the performance of the GIU and related applications Open > Office or Star Office take minutes to load where MS Office 2000 on Win2K pro > will take 10-15 seconds on the same machine. > > It seems as though the Office Productivity applications take far longer to > load than web browsers or Ximian Evolution. > > Is this normal? Is it tweakable? All input gratefully appreciated. > > Jim Slocomb
Microsoft tends to make Office Components TSR-like (Load into Memory, but Terminate and Stay Ready), so even when you haven't used any office components they are sitting in RAM just waiting to be called upon. I would bet that if you configured the boxes to do an rpm -V of the office suite RPMS during the boot process (would compute MD5 checksums, and hence force them to be cached in RAM) that then when you logged into the X-windows environment they would load up right quickly. -Ben. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
