OpenOffice ridiculously slow to start on FC3

[John Lagrue]

Mike Klinke wrote:

>On Thursday 02 December 2004 17:28, John Lagrue wrote:
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>>If the problem was anything to do with either disk transfer rates
>>or amount of memory then I would see my disk hammering away flat
>>out. But as I said in my first email, disc activity stops! So
>>does CPU activity. OO just sits there for 5 minutes without
>>displaying any window.
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>>Any other suggestions?
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>>JDL
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>I saw another post complaining of the same symptoms in past week 
>(your's too?).  I also am running a laptop (Sony VAIO, 750MHz) and 
>as you can see below it took about 11 seconds to load to the blank 
>page and exit again with the command shown.
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No, that wasn't me.

>16:54:11 $ date;ooffice;date
>Thu Dec  2 17:28:44 CST 2004
>Thu Dec  2 17:28:55 CST 2004
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>This time reflects the second invocation, not the first (it was near 
>25 seconds). I have trimmed the spell checker file and I'm using 
>the XFce desktop if that makes a difference.
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That's the sort of speed I got with FC 2. Having done a clean install of 
FC3 the performance has fallen through the floor.

JDL