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