Eberhard Roloff wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > >> 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 >> >> > OK, it does not do any harm, instead it has some positive effect.. > > Nevertheless please allow me to rephrase: > No matter how much RAM it takes or how much RAM I will (not) have, I > never preload anything, just on the basis that I might possibly use it > some time later on. >
Well, one could claim you're wasting RAM when it could be holding something, instead of empty. ;-) -- Use OpenOffice.org <http://www.openoffice.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
