James Knott wrote: > 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. ;-) > > agreed! I will direct my humble efforts to filling it up... ;-))
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