Why is OpenOffice slow?

[Russell Davie]

On Sun, 2 Jul 2006 18:07:07 +0530
"Arjun Shankar" <arjunsha at gmail.com> wrote:

> Okey, I didn't really bother about this till I saw OpenOffice running
> on Windows machines at the place where I train. OpenOffice works
> REALLY slow on my notebook (running only Ubuntu, so I can't really
> compare, how it is on other operating systems myself), but it's
> reasonably fast on those windows machines, which arent really all that
> 'better' than my litle piece of computing power.

maybe prelinking the binaries would speed it up,

It shortened OO load from 17 seconds to 12seconds on a AMD 2800Sempron, 756Mb. 

apt-get install prelink (or synaptic)

then edit /etc/defaults/prelink to have
PRELINKING=yes

run:
sudo /etc/cron.daily/prelink

warning: it will take a while on the first pass, depending on processor speed and how much is installed.
It ran all night and finished by morning. 

HTH

- Russell