Re: Debian and StarOffice5.1
On Tue, 10 Aug 1999, Holger Leiser wrote:
> I have problems to run StarOffice , because it takes a very very long
> time to load it. Can it be possible that there
> is a conflict with shared libraries ?
That is a possiblity, there are a number of other things that affect the
loading time of any application (not just staroffice, but staroffice might
be making them apparent to you)... firstly, just a few short questions,
how much ram do you have? I have 32 megabytes, and staroffice takes about
a minute to load, when I had 64 megabytes (I had to sell some <frown>), it
only took 10 seconds or so... secondly, have you got enough hdd space
left for temporary files? Staroffice doesn't die when it doesn't have
enough space, it just starts doing some silly things to try and get around
the problem... check your drive usage (on all drives if you have more than
one).
The main thing I would check on your system would be the RAM... linux uses
a lot more physical ram than you might think (even though it doesn't need
to... it just likes to have some available for instant use it seems to
me...) If you have enough physical ram (I've got to get back up to at
least 64 megabytes myself... aiming for 256Megabytes actually <grin>),
then most x-windows applications will fly along, even if you have other
problems with system config.
Hope this helps,
Peter Ludwig
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