[Pc_Support] Re: OpenOffice v2 beta usage in production setting?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:01 -0400, Austin Denyer wrote:
> I can't speak for the Windoze version, but the Linux version of OOo2
> takes a LOOOOOONG time to load.  Once it's loaded it's pretty sweet and
> reasonably snappy (as long as you have plenty of RAM), but you do need
> some serious hardware if you're planning to impress anyone.  

It actually loaded in under 4 seconds for me in Linux/x86-64, Athlon 64
3200+, 1GB SDRAM (DDR400, 2.5-3-3-7 timing), Western Digital 320GB
7200rpm SATA drive.  Now I _know_ that's not a typical system.  But
still, I'm not seeing any "difference" between OOo 1.0 / SO 7.0 and OOo
1.9.104 (my version of the 2.0 beta).

> By way of an example, I just tried it on a Dual-Processor Pentium III
> (2x750MHz) with 768 Megs of RAMBUS memory, a fresh (as of this morning)
> install of Debian Testing with 2.6.8-2-SMP kernel and IceWM, and it took
> close to 2 minutes to load oowriter2!

Ouch!  That sounds like it's a different issue, but that could be me.

> It took around 40 secs to load oowriter2 on this box (3.0GHz AMD64, 1
> Gig RAM, IceWM, Debian Pure64 native with OOo2 in a 32-bit Sid chroot),
> although to be fair I'm hitting this box pretty hard right now, as the
> following clip from top shows:
> Mem:   1023320k total,  1001832k used,    21488k free,   121672k buffers
> Swap:  1951856k total,  1118200k used,   833656k free,   505316k cached

Ouch -- you're using 2GB of RAM.

Here was my system state (I just got done playing a few rounds of
UT2004):  

Mem:   1025120k total,  1012812k used,    12308k free,     8524k buffers
Swap:  7823612k total,      292k used,  7823320k free,   465648k cached


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Bryan J. Smith                                     b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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