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Lately I have been getting the impression that OpenOffice 2 is becoming increasingly slow. I'm running a decent system (athlonxp 1700+, 320 Mb RAM, 80 Gb UDMA 100 drive) yet simply opening the soffice.bin shell takes something like 80s on a cold start. The second time round is a bit faster but still takes 60+ seconds.
This is a lot slower than the typical 10-20s I seem to remember seeing reported by others.
I am running OOO with KDE integration, so this might be a factor. I also have quite a few fonts installed. Does anyone know what I might do to improve performance?
Edit:
A third start with OOO_FORCE_DESKTOP=none exported yields a startup time of 43 secs. still quite slow
Edit 2:
Disabling all additional font directories in /etc/fonts/local.conf and /etc/X11/xorg.conf yields a big speedup! soffice.bin now starts in 5 sec.
So let me rephrase my initial question:
Can someone tell me how to do something about the slowdown that occurs when you have additional fonts installed, or tell me if I can instruct openoffice to ignore some of my fonts?
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Tried prelinking? (This is not related to your font problem but has helped me speed up program loads.) pacman -S prelink then sudo prelink -maR or something, it will probably help but 80s is too long . . .
Swriter opens for me (prelinked, not first load from a cold boot) in 23s or so, with time command and using file -> quit. And I'm on a PIII 700.
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well, thanks for the tip. however, prelinking does not seem to make much difference.
a HOT start of swriter yields about 4.5 seconds user time until quit, both with an without prelinking. this is after removing the fonts. i could try later with the fonts installed, but i don't see how pre-linking should influence slowness due to fonts..
the thing i find weird is that the additional fonts i have now disabled were pretty much all OpenType fonts, which OpenOffice doesn't even use. maybe OpenOffice tries to load them and fails, which could explain why it takes so dang long..
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