Re: StarOffice 7 user question
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:35:23 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to time the starts on three machines. The older version of Star Office (6.0) let me count to 15 (one one thousand, two one thousand, etc) before it was started on a 1 gig duron with 256meg. SO 5.2 on an .8 gig Athlon and 770 megs took so long I thought it wasn't going to start (got to over 20 counting before I gave up counting, but it finally started, maybe in 25 secs.) On a 1 gig duron with 650megs SO 7.0 started up by the time I got to 5. So, startup time is reduced by 66% in my tests, which I consider official and final. I can't compare SO 6 and SO 7 on the same machine because SO 7 removed SO 6 when it was installed. The improvements are similar with OO. I run an AthlonXP 1800+ with 512M. Earlier versions of OO took 20+ seconds to initialize. OO 1.1.0 takes 5.5 seconds on initial startup, 3.5 seconds on subsequent startups. On prior versions, there was a substantial difference between source-compiled code (10+ hours and 5 Gig temporary space, ouch) and binary code from OO, but this is less noticeable now that OO has cleaned up their code. -- Collins Richey - Denver Area if you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: StarOffice 7 user question
On SuSE, I have been using the OO pre-loader, or whatever it is called. It does make loading faster. Odd that this seems not to be part of the SO 7 offering from Sun. At least not as an accessible item, as it is with OO. On Thu, 13 Nov 2003 06:42:01 -0700 Collins Richey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The improvements are similar with OO. I run an AthlonXP 1800+ with 512M. Earlier versions of OO took 20+ seconds to initialize. OO 1.1.0 takes 5.5 seconds on initial startup, 3.5 seconds on subsequent startups. On prior versions, there was a substantial difference between source-compiled code (10+ hours and 5 Gig temporary space, ouch) and binary code from OO, but this is less noticeable now that OO has cleaned up their code. -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: StarOffice 7 user question
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 23:35:23 -0500 Joel Hammer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just tried to time the starts on three machines. The older version of Star Office (6.0) let me count to 15 (one one thousand, two one thousand, etc) before it was started on a 1 gig duron with 256meg. SO 5.2 on an .8 gig Athlon and 770 megs took so long I thought it wasn't going to start (got to over 20 counting before I gave up counting, but it finally started, maybe in 25 secs.) On a 1 gig duron with 650megs SO 7.0 started up by the time I got to 5. So, startup time is reduced by 66% in my tests, which I consider official and final. I can't compare SO 6 and SO 7 on the same machine because SO 7 removed SO 6 when it was installed. So each machine was a different one? I see that you have more RAM than my machine. Perhaps this is the problem. This is embarrassing, but I don't recall if the machine has 256 or 512 MB. I will check. Still, it has tons of swap. But if it is using that, it takes time. Are these running KDE or GNOME or some other that perhaps leaves more RAM for other apps? -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
StarOffice 7 user question
StarOffice 7 user question: I am curious about the quicker startup time for StarOffice 7. I am not convinced mine is really faster than OpenOffice 1.1. Maybe this is how it should be. When your StarOffice 7 starts, you get the little startup box with a progress bar. On mine, the window shows up reasonably quick. The progress bar zips to just about the middle almost instantly. However, at this midpoint location it stops for some seconds. Then it pops to the end almost instantly. Is this how it acts on other systems? I may just be expecting too much. I wonder if this is different if you have a faster hard disk, as I think lots of the startup time is reading in files. -- ++···+ · Roger Oberholtzer · E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]· · OPQ Systems AB · WWW: http://www.opq.se/ · · Erik Dahlbergsgatan 41-43 ·Phone: Int + 46 8 314223 · · 115 34 Stockholm · Mobile: Int + 46 733 621657 · · Sweden · Fax: Int + 46 8 302602 · ++···+ ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: StarOffice 7 user question
On Wednesday 12 November 2003 4:27 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: StarOffice 7 user question: I am curious about the quicker startup time for StarOffice 7. I am not convinced mine is really faster than OpenOffice 1.1. Maybe this is how it should be. When your StarOffice 7 starts, you get the little startup box with a progress bar. On mine, the window shows up reasonably quick. The progress bar zips to just about the middle almost instantly. However, at this midpoint location it stops for some seconds. Then it pops to the end almost instantly. Is this how it acts on other systems? I may just be expecting too much. I wonder if this is different if you have a faster hard disk, as I think lots of the startup time is reading in files. I get the same results here on an Athlon 800mhz with SCSI drives... And I don't think it really is starting any faster than StarOffice 6.0 did. -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 11/12/03 07:08 + ++ Hansen's Library Axiom: The closest library doesn't have the material you need. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: StarOffice 7 user question
I just tried to time the starts on three machines. The older version of Star Office (6.0) let me count to 15 (one one thousand, two one thousand, etc) before it was started on a 1 gig duron with 256meg. SO 5.2 on an .8 gig Athlon and 770 megs took so long I thought it wasn't going to start (got to over 20 counting before I gave up counting, but it finally started, maybe in 25 secs.) On a 1 gig duron with 650megs SO 7.0 started up by the time I got to 5. So, startup time is reduced by 66% in my tests, which I consider official and final. I can't compare SO 6 and SO 7 on the same machine because SO 7 removed SO 6 when it was installed. Joel On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 07:10:06AM -0500, Bruce Marshall wrote: On Wednesday 12 November 2003 4:27 am, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: StarOffice 7 user question: I am curious about the quicker startup time for StarOffice 7. I am not convinced mine is really faster than OpenOffice 1.1. Maybe this is how it should be. When your StarOffice 7 starts, you get the little startup box with a progress bar. On mine, the window shows up reasonably quick. The progress bar zips to just about the middle almost instantly. However, at this midpoint location it stops for some seconds. Then it pops to the end almost instantly. Is this how it acts on other systems? I may just be expecting too much. I wonder if this is different if you have a faster hard disk, as I think lots of the startup time is reading in files. I get the same results here on an Athlon 800mhz with SCSI drives... And I don't think it really is starting any faster than StarOffice 6.0 did. -- ++ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 11/12/03 07:08 + ++ Hansen's Library Axiom: The closest library doesn't have the material you need. ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users ___ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc - http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
