[K12OSN] 8 Minutes to Open Open Office 2

Petre Scheie petre at maltzen.net
Wed Sep 28 19:57:24 UTC 2005


Ok, here's a strange bit of info, perhaps worthless: I installed 4.4.1, complete with 
OOo 2, on a new server a few weeks ago.  Server is Athlon 64 with 1GB RAM, serving 3-5 
clients.  In the lab, before rolling it out to production, I clicked on OOo and it took 
about 30 seconds to load, worse than the 4.2.1 with OOo 1.1.4 that had been on the 
machine.  What a disappointment, since the whole reason I went to 4.4.1 was to get OOo 
2.  Tried it a several more times, hoping to build up the cache, but to no avail. 
Logging in at the server and loading it made no difference for the clients.  Depressed, 
I went to bed for the night.  The next day, I tried it again from a client: it loaded in 
2 seconds!  It's been snappy ever since.  I've had a few reboots since then and even 
after that it still loads in less than 5 seconds.

I have no idea what the initial problem was, nor do I know what fixed it. Disk issue? 
I've got just a single IDE disk in the server. But whatever it was, I can see how 30 
clients hitting it simultaneously might drag out to eight minutes.

Petre

Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 13:56, R. Scott Belford wrote:
> 
> 
>>It takes 8 minutes, total, for a class of 30 to launch Open Office.  So, 
>>class goes like this, 'Welcome class, please lauch OO, and let's then 
>>take a 10 minute break.'
> 
> 
> Does it help if one client or the console has loaded it before the
> others start?  
> 




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