[KLUG Members] Speed up OpenOffice...

Adam Tauno Williams adam at morrison-ind.com
Wed Nov 10 10:47:33 EST 2004


> > Alright, I can take it no more. Does anyone have any openoffice tips for
> > speeding application start 
> > up time? I've learned to live with 30 second start up times (even after
> quickstarter is running) for  too long.
> Get a faster machine?  :-)
> Seriously, what speed machine are you running?
> My 2.8ghz starts OO in about 5 seconds.

My 2.0GHz laptop w/1Gb of RAM = 6 seconds. (With oodles of other stuff already
open).

I've seen some hack around about using LD_PRELOAD to get the libraries in MUCH
faster, but I don't know if it is worth it, since you'll need to refactor it
when you make any upgrades.

> I take it you're doing the quickstarter described here?:
> http://www.bytebot.net/openoffice/faq.html#Misc1



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