[K12OSN] openoffice quick startup

Angus Carr acarr at saskforestcentre.ca
Mon Dec 6 15:16:25 UTC 2004


Eric Harrison wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 11:58 -0600, Angus Carr wrote:
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>>Rob Owens wrote:
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>>>I saw this on a website discussing the SimplyMEPIS distro.  They say it will cut in half the time it takes for openoffice to load.
>>>
>>>(as root):
>>>oooprelink -f
>>>
>>>I'm in Windows now and can't try it out.  If anybody does try it, please post your results to the list.
>>>
>>>-Rob
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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>>On a Pentium III laptop with 256 MB RAM, and not much else going on, 
>>Gnome launched, used wall clock time with an external stopwatch from 
>>time the mouseclick to launch from the menus. I have pasted in below the 
>>prelink script I used, which is based on debian's script, but uses FC3 
>>paths (Using K12LTSP 4.2.0 beta4). The following is a single test, so 
>>this is not exhaustive.
>>
>>28 seconds to splashscreen, 49 to OOwriter being ready to accept input.
>>Flush the cache*, then...
>>20 seconds to splashscreen, 40 to oowriter being ready to accept input.
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><script snipped>
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>>    /usr/sbin/prelink $DEBUG \
>>        --ld-library-path=/usr/lib/ooo-1.1/program \
>>        --conserve-memory /usr/lib/ooo-1.1
>>    
>>
><script snipped>
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>This does not make any difference on the boxes I have available to me
>at the moment. At least with K12LTSP 4.1 & 4.2 (I'm *pretty* sure 4.0
>as well), OOo is automatically prelinked every night.
>
>"prelink -p" will show you what is in the prelink cache.
>
>-Eric
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The results were one-offs, so it wouldn't surprise me if there was 
another explanation. Thanks for the pointer on how to identify the 
prelinked executables.

Angus.




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