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[Tim Daly]

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 at rio.sci.ccny.cuny.edu