[NBLUG/talk] Re: slow open office startup

Aaron G nite at sonic.net
Tue Nov 8 23:24:44 PST 2005


>So, can anyone explain this in OO's progamming? Is it loading stuff, or
creating temp files? Couldn't there be >a file or group of files that
already exist that OO uses to startup? Or, is it just recreating the
files everytime it >starts that slows it down? Maybe it's like windowzz,
it has to load a bunch of modules and negotiate >connections to others
before it stabilizes enough to display the screen. Anybody? Tim

You might be able to redirect lsof to a file...
start openoffice
then redirect lsof to another file and then use diff to see what it
opend.. maybe every second or something while its starting to see what
files its creating, or opening...?

Lsof is kinda a neat tool if anyone doesn't know about it, i pulled this
from freashmeat:
" Lsof is a Unix-specific diagnostic tool. Its name stands for LiSt Open
Files, and it does just that. It lists information about any files that
are open by processes currently running on the system. It can also list
communications open by each process."

I'm still running OO 1.4.something , but the ximian version, so there's
no java. It still seems really clunkly and bloated... I think not having
a good non-java office suite is hurting the open source/*nix effort.

    -Aaron





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