On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 20:00 -0700, Mark wrote:
I recently updated to OpenOffice 3.2 and I noticed that it, and the latest Evolution, seem to be incredibly slow for some operations.
Latest version for CentOS 5.5 is openoffice.org-writer-3.1.1-19.5.el5_5.1 Where did you obtain 3.2 from? That may be your slowness as on my 64 bit workstation I see none at all. Loads in about 3 secs.
evolution-2.12.3-19.el5: Now Evolution on my 32 bit workstation I have 1555 emails in it and it is not slow, 8 different email accounts also, especially even though it is GUI based instead of console. About every 2000 mails I back it up and start over again from 0.
E.g., in OO, about half the time when I'm editing something, it takes anywhere from 10-30 seconds for OO to respond to a click on one of the icons or menu items, and Evo is taking forever to format messages.
Converting a *.doc file to *.pdf only takes about 3 secs. What type of Graphics card you have? Yea I know weird question but can cause your problem also.
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I'm running the x86_64 release on an Athlon II X4, 2.6GHz with 4GB of memory and lots of available space in memory and on disk.
Looked at your memory usage? Is it swapping by chance? #free. Have you looked at top while using those apps? What about spamd in Evolution? Disable all non needed services.
Here is the memory for my 32 bit workstation for Evolution + spamd + a few consoles/pine opened + firefox. & sometimes links & screen. No problem here what so ever. ]#free total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 774648 755020 19628 0 68968 368716 -/+ buffers/cache: 317336 457312 Swap: 1572856 12 1572844
John