OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[John Lagrue]

Wong Kwok-hon wrote:

>On Thu, 02 Dec 2004 22:37:14 +0000, John Lagrue <admin at moraystudio.com> wrote:
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>>This has been raised before but I have a bad problem with OO on FC3. I
>>start it...the banner appears and the blue progress bar quickly goes
>>across to 100% - and then nothing happens for at least 5 minutes.
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>>Nothing to do with swapping or CPU. The CPU load falls to zero, disc
>>activity ceases.....but no window appears for absolutely ages. The
>>system doesn't hang up, because all other activities can continue;
>>browsing, email etc.
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>>This is on an Celeron M320 with 256Mb, 20Gb and 490Mb swap space.
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>>Any ideas?
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>>JDL
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>As I noted that the system is used about 128M and excluded the cached memory...
>So it may not enough memory and CPU is also depended....
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>Ringo
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If the problem was anything to do with either disk transfer rates or 
amount of memory then I would see my disk hammering away flat out. But 
as I said in my first email, disc activity stops! So does CPU activity. 
OO just sits there for 5 minutes without displaying any window.

Any other suggestions?

JDL