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C1000/3x00 General discussions / Openoffice Very Slow On X/qt,pocketworkstation

« on: July 03, 2005, 06:42:30 pm »

Hi All,

I have managed to install X/Qt, PocketWorkstation and OpenOffice 1.1.4 on my SL-C3000 (many thanks to Meanie for his great howto page).

However, OpenOffice programs seem to require a lot of time to load. The spreadsheet component, Calc, loads in about a minute. After that it seems to work normally. Is this normal or I need to configure something to speed the load process up?

I have a 128Mb swap for PocketWorkstation on the internal microdrive and PocketWorkstation is also installed here in a 768Mb loopback filesystem.

I have already read somewhere on this forum that I would be better off by using Abiword and Gnumeric instead of OpenOffice for their much smaller memory footprint.

Thanks,
Andras
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Hi, maybe the data tranfer speed is going down because you have reading and writing on your microdrive at the same time (speed might be less than a half compared to reading or writing only, I think).

If you put the swapfile on any other physical drive than the installation files, things might speed up because now you have reading only on the microdrive and writing only on SD or CF, no matter if it's a high speed card or not?

could that be an idea?