[K12OSN] 8 Minutes to Open Open Office 2

[R. Scott Belford]

Dan Kegel wrote:
> On 10/7/05, R. Scott Belford <scott at hosef.org> wrote:
> 
>>In summary, the lab runs great, except for OO.  While some are waiting
>>for it to open, others are actively using it.  Meanwhile, the
>>application menus are snappy, other apps readily open, etc.  At no time
>>in top is the cpu or ram totally utilized.  In fact, three instances of
>>firefox had more cpu utilization than all OO instances.
>>...
>>I was onsite at Kuhio school with Debbie yesterday during and after one
>>of her large classes that was experiencing the extreme slowness when
>>opening OpenOffice on the K12LTSP server. ...
>>The client logons proceed quickly and everything is pretty responsive
>>until OOwriter is invoked.  The OpenOffice splash screen appears quickly
>>and the progress bar goes immediately to the exact halfway point and
>>then stalls. While OO is stalled, other apps on the same workstation and
>>OO itself on other workstations are all very responsive.
> 
> 
> It might be worth having somebody use ethereal to have a look at the X
> protocol traffic.
> Another idea: can you reproduce the problem by ssh'ing in to the server
> from, say, a linux laptop or some other beefy machine as opposed to an
> LTSP client?
> If so, can you also reproduce it if you ssh in but use NX instead of X
> to display the remote app?

Thanks, Dan.  Good suggestions.  We'll take a look at this, too.

> - Dan

--scott