[K12OSN] 8 Minutes to Open Open Office 2

[Rob Owens]

Has anybody tried loading Open Office 2 on an older
K12LTSP system to see if the slowness is due to the
new K12LTSP version or the new Open Office version?

--- "R. Scott Belford" <scott at hosef.org> wrote:

> On Thursday 29 September 2005 10:36 am, Stephen J.
> Smoogen wrote:
> >
> > It is usual to consider a thread dead if no one
> has replied after a
> > week. 24 hours is not a dead thread. Can you
> answer items from
> > previous emails and some things I just throught
> of?
> 
> Thanks for the insight, Stephen.  My apologies for
> the pre-mature death 
> declaration.  I think that I have taken care of
> other background questions.  
> The important fact is that both labs have run great
> with prior 4.x releases.  
> A volunteer at one school has installed 4.2.1 a few
> times now just to be 
> certain that the issue followed the 4.4.1 release.
> 
> Our vision is to enable schools to utilize free
> software in a thin-client 
> environment and to do it in a self-sustaining,
> student-involving manner.  
> When the end user witnesses a degradation in
> performance from an upgrade, 
> they blame the upgrade and lose confidence in the
> product.  Fortunately, I am 
> not the end user.
> 
> >
> > 1) Have you run prelink?
> 
> I will have this done.  However, if it was never
> needed with 4.2.1, why do we 
> need to ask a teacher to do this?
> 
> > 2) Have you looked in dmesg for error messages
> about network problems?
> 
> Doubtful that any network issues exist given the
> prior performance of the 
> hardware.
> 
> > 3) What is the network backbone of your system?
> [Switch, hub, gigabit,
> > 10mbit, etc?] OOfice is a large app with a lot of
> window touching...
> > network mismatches between the server or clients
> and switch can show
> > up on this and not other apps.
> 
> Gig uplink to a gig switch.  I don't see this as an
> issue.
> 
> I am intrigued by Les' suggestion that /home be on a
> separate drive array.  It 
> does not explain why the problem exists with 4.4.1,
> but perhaps it is design 
> function of OO version 2.
> 
> > 4) What does top/ps say?
> 
> I am asking a school to do this for us.  Asking an
> overworked teacher, though, 
> to coordinate this while managing 30 students is,
> well, overwhelming.  We 
> will likely have to get a volunteer on site for
> this.
> >
> > --
> > Stephen J Smoogen.
> > CSIRT/Linux System Administrator
> 
> --scott
> 
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