Normally when I work from home, I use OOo (3.2.0) on a Linux workstation with 8 Gb of RAM, a 2.6GHz quad-core AMD Phenom X4 9950 CPU, fast disk drives and other performance-oriented H/W.
This weekend I had to do some maintenance and my favorite box was down so I used a 'slower' PC with slower drives, 4GB of memory, and a slower CPU (dual core Athlon 64 @ 6 GHz), under Windows 7, and performance-wise OOo 3.2.0 on it ran rings around the faster Linux box. (I had never tried it there before on anything longer than a grocery- list spreadsheet.) Is there a known reason for the performance difference between the Windows version and the Linux version? Or am I seeing something else probably unrelated to the software itself? From the load meter, I notice that on Linux, OOo seems to max out only one core on the CPU - however, it seems to split across both cores on the Windows 7 machine. While I expect that this has something to do with it, I am hard pressed to believe that this is the single cause. As a test I 'borrowed' a novel my wife is working on (about 900 pages, no illustrations, all one long .odt document) and here are the comparative times (in seconds) Fedora 13 Linux Windows 7 --------------- --------- Open (empty) writer screen 4.7 < 2 Load doc originally 30.9 3.1 Save doc 3.9 4.2 Update TOC 154.1 < 2 Send final page of doc to printer 29.8 2.8 Export .pdf file gave up* 29.5 *At 10 minutes I stopped counting and killed the process as only From the load meter, I notice that on Linux, OOo seems to max out only one core on the CPU - however, it seems to split across both cores on the Windows 7 machine. While I expect that this has something to do with it, I am hard pressed to believe that this is the single cause. I really like OOo and have used it (and even StarOffice before OOo was available), and have no intention of changing tools. However, the performance I am seeing here worries me. Does anyone have any insights into what I am seeing here? - tks, wwa -- william w. austin waus...@speakeasy.net "life is just another phase i'm going through. this time, anyway ..." --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org