Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Alexander Ruoff wrote: I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with both 9.2 and 10.0) or do you have one of the intel extrem graphic cards? There you can change it in the bios and even if the max. is 16 in the bios setting, the card can use the full 32 or 64 MB as fare as I know. If I am wrong 'bout this info, please correct me ;) Alex Hi Alex, I've got an onboard graphics card SiS530 3D PCI/AGP which borrows memory off the board. Although I believe it can be adjusted in the bios, the mobo documentation stipulates 16Mb as the recommended maximum. So its probably safest to leave it alone. I hope to do some serious upgrading fairly soon anyway. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
> I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although > vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb Hi Graham, since the OO problem is solved I just got one question... you got a 16 MB graphic card (which shouldn't be a problem... used 8 MB and 16 MB until very recently with both 9.2 and 10.0) or do you have one of the intel extrem graphic cards? There you can change it in the bios and even if the max. is 16 in the bios setting, the card can use the full 32 or 64 MB as fare as I know. If I am wrong 'bout this info, please correct me ;) Alex Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Miark wrote: On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark Been there, done that and it does seem to be opening up a lot faster now. Printing quicker too. I'll see how it goes from now on. Thanks for all the advice folks. Dunno where I'd be without this list. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 07:22:04 +0100, Graham wrote: > It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small > alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box > on it. Blow away your .openoffice directory and that'll probably fix it: rm -rf ~/.openoffice Miark Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thursday 28 October 2004 14:21, Graham Watkins wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > > On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: > >>Well, why? > >> > >>In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go > >>at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. > > (Snipped) > > >>Is everyone else here having the same experience? > >> > >>How do you cope? > > (Snipped again) > > > What you are experiencing is not normal and sounds like a configuration > > issue of some kind. Can you make another user on your box and try to > > start it there? Are you using Mandrake packages of OO.o or the binary > > installer provided by OO.o? > > Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much > faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a > memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had > crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration > problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original > installation. > > Cheers, what does your host file, and resolve.conf say. -- linux counter #167806 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 04:21, Graham Watkins wrote: > Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much > faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a > memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had > crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration > problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original > installation. > > Cheers, Create a new user. Login as that new user. Fire up OO and see if that still takes an eternity to start. If it doesn't, then something is strange about YOUR account/profile/home/settings -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- I try to keep an open mind, but not so open that my brains fall out. -- Judge Harold T. Stone Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Fri, 2004-10-29 at 03:45, Graham Watkins wrote: > > > Abiword. > > > I can see your point but the compatibility with Word is likely to keep > me looking at OO, SO or . Word ;-) What I do - when I have to use OO, is to open up one instance of it, and then minimise it - then when I have to open a document or OOW again, it's heaps faster - but then again, I have tweaked and tuned my machine and HD settings, and have 892mb of RAM and have updated all the packages religiously... -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- I often quote myself; it adds spice to my conversation. -- G. B. Shaw Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thursday 28 October 2004 03:41 pm, Björn Olsson wrote: > On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:21:40 +0100 > > Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greg Meyer wrote: > > Never say that to a guy :-D > > > Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was > > much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less > > of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had > > crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration > > problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the > > original installation. > > > > Cheers, > > Maybe your pspfontcache-file has grown too big. Google for > openoffice slow pspfontcache > You could also try removing or renaming your ~/.openoffice directory and let it be recreated. -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 28 Oct 2004 19:21:40 +0100 Graham Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Greg Meyer wrote: > Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was > much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less > of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had > crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration > problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the > original installation. > > Cheers, Maybe your pspfontcache-file has grown too big. Google for openoffice slow pspfontcache Björn Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Greg Meyer wrote: On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. (Snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? (Snipped again) What you are experiencing is not normal and sounds like a configuration issue of some kind. Can you make another user on your box and try to start it there? Are you using Mandrake packages of OO.o or the binary installer provided by OO.o? Just tried running under root (yes, I know I shouldn't) and it was much faster. Then tried starting it as me using xfce4 which is less of a memory hog - such a slow opening I wondered for a while if it had crashed. Looks like you may have something with the configuration problem idea. I'm using mandrake binaries which came with the original installation. Cheers, Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Alexander Ruoff wrote:
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22:
Well, why?
In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go
at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing.
(snipped)
Is everyone else here having the same experience?
How do you cope?
(snipped again)
How much memory do you have? I used until recently a PIII 450 with 128
MB, MDK 10.0 in the office and OO was slow but it didn't need 15 Minutes
to open a document.
Now with a Celeron D and 512 MB OO is fast and I see no difference with
my Pentium M and 512 MB. Thus I assume that it's either due to low
memory or there is a problem with your OO installation. Have you tried
to reinstall OO yet?
Alex
PS: Even my really old K6 200 with 112 MB doesn't need 15 mins to open a
file with OO, I just tested it... ('bout 30 secs for 10,7 kb)
I'm running 224Mb ram which I would have thougbt was enough. Although
vid memory is probably a bit light at 16Mb
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Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Stephen Kühn wrote: On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. (snipped) Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? (snipped again) Abiword. I can see your point but the compatibility with Word is likely to keep me looking at OO, SO or . Word ;-) Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thursday 28 October 2004 02:22 am, Graham Watkins wrote: > Well, why? > > In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go > at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. > > It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small > alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box > on it. > > Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings > and right now life's too short to try. > > It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was > OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to > think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine. > > Is everyone else here having the same experience? > > How do you cope? > > I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the > difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get > a faster computer. > > Cheers What you are experiencing is not normal and sounds like a configuration issue of some kind. Can you make another user on your box and try to start it there? Are you using Mandrake packages of OO.o or the binary installer provided by OO.o? -- /g Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Am Do, den 28.10.2004 schrieb Graham Watkins um 8:22:
> Well, why?
>
> In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go
> at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing.
>
> It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small
> alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box
> on it.
>
> Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings
> and right now life's too short to try.
>
> It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was
> OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to
> think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine.
>
> Is everyone else here having the same experience?
>
> How do you cope?
>
> I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the
> difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get
> a faster computer.
>
> Cheers
How much memory do you have? I used until recently a PIII 450 with 128
MB, MDK 10.0 in the office and OO was slow but it didn't need 15 Minutes
to open a document.
Now with a Celeron D and 512 MB OO is fast and I see no difference with
my Pentium M and 512 MB. Thus I assume that it's either due to low
memory or there is a problem with your OO installation. Have you tried
to reinstall OO yet?
Alex
PS: Even my really old K6 200 with 112 MB doesn't need 15 mins to open a
file with OO, I just tested it... ('bout 30 secs for 10,7 kb)
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Re: [newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 16:22, Graham Watkins wrote: > Well, why? > > In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go > at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. > > It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small > alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box > on it. > > Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings > and right now life's too short to try. > > It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was > OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to > think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine. > > Is everyone else here having the same experience? > > How do you cope? > > I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the > difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get > a faster computer. > > Cheers Abiword. -- stephen kuhn mobile: 0410-728-389 illawarra and regional new south wales --- GNU/Linux/OpenSource Solutions and Alternatives 100% Microsoft Free and no viruses Registered Linux User # 267497 Windows: Where do you want to go today? MacOS: Where do you want to be tomorrow? Linux: Are you coming or what? --- Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
[newbie] Why is Open Office Writer so slow?
Well, why? In the past I've mostly used Star Office 5.2 which while it doesn't go at the speed of light, leaves Open Office 1.1 standing. It's just taken me about 15 minutes to open a file, make a small alteration and print a single page with about 3 lines of text and a box on it. Oh, and I can't figure out how to change the default printer settings and right now life's too short to try. It's just as well I've got Star Office because if all I had to use was OO, I think I'd be forced to spend a lot more time in Windows. Come to think of it, I might get faster results using Word with Wine. Is everyone else here having the same experience? How do you cope? I'm using it with Mandrake 9.2 and KDE 3.1. on a Pentium III for all the difference it makes. I have no plans to upgrade the software until I get a faster computer. Cheers Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
