On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 18:11, Julien Olivier wrote:
On a Fujitsu/Siemens Amilo D laptop with 256 MB of RAM and a P4 2GHZ
processor running Fedora Core 1, OpenOffice 1.1 takes 67 seconds to
start on the first time and 33 seconds the second time (after having
closed it). If you want more information about my hardware, just ask.
You might try running hdparms to see if you are getting a reasonable
transfer rate on your disk. I have a Dell Inspiron and it initially
had a slow disk tranfer rate. An hdparms investigate got me a factor
of 10 speedup on disk transfer rates.
Tim Daly
daly(a)rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu