On Sunday 15 June 2003 05:20 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 01:13, Wm. G. Urquhart wrote: > > Hi Thanks for the quick reply. > > > > I've just tested my OpenOffice (Using Write) and it load in 14 seconds > > this is on a Dual Processor 200Mhz (yes! 200Mhz) running 9.1 with 1Gb RAM > > a 56Gb SCSI RAIDed disk subsystem, and a TNT2 M64 32MB Video. > > > > The system is in fact a DELL 6100/200 > > > > This is quite acceptable to me or have I missed something? > > Um, I think you've got us all beat mate. Having a dual-processor is a > major help in this matter - and in having SCSI's, well, that's a big'un > as well (IDE is such a poor performer but marketing makes the world go > round!) > > Now if I could get a Tyan mobo with dual Athlon XP 3200's, 1gb of RAM > and four SCSI's, I'd tend to bet my "load time" for OO would be a tad > bit faster...
With only one little old Athlon XP 2500, basic workstation 9.1 installation, non-optimized Maxtor 7200 rpm IDE drives, and 512 MB RAM, my load time for ooffice runs about 12.5 seconds. Closing ooffice and then immediately restarting it takes a bit more than 3 seconds. Times for OpenOfficeWriter were about the same; no tests were made on OpenOfficeCalc. All tests were conducted using a stopwatch on a freshly booted system (a line of thunderstorms went through here earlier tonight). The RAM usage jumped about 60 MB when oofice was loaded, but only went down a small amount when it was closed, just as Linus has ordained. I'll have to repeat this exercise again when I start to use /swap. Seems like further evidence that there ain't no substitute for RAM. And two CPU's can be better than one. Now, to get down to matters of real importance, does anyone know how to speed up AisleRiot? -- cmg
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