James Knott wrote: > Eberhard Roloff wrote: >> James Knott wrote: >> >>> Donald D Henson wrote: >>> >>>> Some time ago, I remember seeing a discussion about a way to speed up >>>> the launch of OpenOffice.org modules. Now I can't find any reference to >>>> it. I can find references to 'quick launch' but that refers to putting >>>> icons on the quicklaunch panel. Does anyone else remember such a >>>> discussion or am I just going nuts in my old age? Thanks for any >>>> assistance. >>>> >>> IIRC, there's a separate RPM that has to be installed for the >>> Quickstarter. On my system, the first time starting OpenOffice after a >>> reboot takes less than 3 seconds, after that, less than 2s. >>> >>> >>> >> And as a matter of principle, I never install the Quickstarter. >> >> Although I am using 2 GB of RAM, I definitely see no benefit in >> sacrifising memory for something that I might _poosibly_ need to start >> during the day. >> >> And when I start OOorg it admittedly takes a little longer, but the time >> it takes then, is much less than the time I need to read this mail. >> >> > > You're not sacrificing memory. Should you fill that 2 GB, the least > recently used stuff will be sent to swap. Linux does not have all the > issues that Windows does and works far more efficiently. > > I have only 1G of RAM and very seldom ever swap anything. The last time I can recall worrying about the amount of ram used by dormant program bits and pieces was programming array manipulations on my HP-28S with 32K of memory. I don't know how much oo quicklaunch takes, but I have not been affected by its absence. YMMV
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