OpenOffice startup time (when network is up)

[Jorge Fábregas]

Hello everyone,

I just discovered the reason why OO.o starts very slow on my FC4 laptop.  If 
I'm connected to the LAN and I start Writer, it takes about 25 seconds. When 
I click Writer, you'll see the loading 'progress bar' and it will stop about 
20% of the bar. It will stay there for 15 or 18 seconds and then it will 
resume until it finally loads.

I then do:

service network stop

I do the same thing and it starts in about 3 seconds. oK, I know it's the 2nd 
time I'm doing it (it's mainly cached) but if I do:

service network start

and I try it again, it will take 20-25 seconds.  I tried using ethereal but I 
don't see any strange traffic. I'm trying to figure out what OO.o is trying 
to do while starting that takes so much time (when network is enabled) but so 
far nothing.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

-- 
Jorge