[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

[mac]

Nigel Verity wrote:
> A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The
> application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly
> sees boot times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times as long
> to load, Calc 5 times and Writer 3 times. Similarly, they take much
> longer to unload.

I'd agree with Al - this is not usual, and may be wubi-specific.  While 
you're trying to find a fix, you might find it useful to try these ways 
of speeding up OOo (useful with any installation of OOo):

Start Open Office and click on Tools > Options. This should open the 
configuration. Click on Memory in the left menu and change the following 
settings:

• Number of Steps: 30
• Use for Open Office: 128
• Memory per Object: 20
• Number of Objects: 20

Click on Java in the left menu. Uncheck "Use a Java Runtime 
Environment". Click OK and restart Open Office to see how fast it is now.

Hope this helps for now.

mac