RHEL's OPEN OFFICE very slow in opening

[Senthil-ahm]

Hi,

P4 Desktop with 915chipset & 256MB RAM/40GB HDD.
RHEL ES 3
open office 1.1
root- 4gb
boot- 1gb
swap- 1gb
data-30gb
when ever i start opening open office it takes minimum of 30sec to 3minutes.
by default processor utilisation shows around 95% alredy utilised.


any suggestions to improve performance.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom Senthil,

This is a common problem with open office. The best way to deal with it is to get the latest patch from up2date or yum patching.

SEP

[Vitaly Karasik_1]

IMHO, 256MB RAM is not enough for OpenOffice. You should upgrade it to 512MB or even 1GB.

Rgds,
Vitaly

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

This should noticeably speed up your OOo:

Open OpenOffice.org Writer -> Tools -> Options

Under the OpenOffice.org heading, select Memory

Under Graphics Cache change the "Use for OpenOffice.org" to 30 MB

Change "Memory per Object" to 2.0 MB

Close OpenOffice.org

Restart OpenOffice

[Vipulinux]

Hi

openoffice v 1 was very slow and had memory leak issues as well.
Just upgrade the openoffice to version 2 and check the difference.

Cheers
Vipul

[dirk dierickx]

also opening native OOo files will be faster, so just use that. opening MS-Office files always is slower and takes a while.