[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue

[Kris Douglas]

2009/4/29 mac <ammonius.grammaticus at gmx.co.uk>:
> 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

Hey, Mac, that list of things you said to try really boosted the speed
of My OOo, I thought it was fast, and now it's faster.

Additionally, I would like to add that it is indeed WUBI that slows
OOo down, it's considerably noticeable on my laptop. Then, I installed
Jaunty using my normal USB install-partition the disk job, and it was
perfect again.


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