On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 15:54 -0800, MHR wrote: > On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 3:20 PM, JohnS <jses27 at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > On Sat, 2010-01-30 at 10:11 -0800, MHR wrote: > > > >> > >> So, does anyone know why AR takes forever to get going? > >> > > --- > > No, but it takes about 5 secs to start up on a P4-1.7. That machine is > > 10 years old almost. How long are you talking about? > > > > I just tried it on my 2.6GHz Athlon II X4 (new CPU I could not resist) > and got this: ~4 seconds to display, then another 22 before it would > do anything else (specifically, advance one page). During the wait, > it just sits there and acts dead, kind of like SeaMonkey does when it > decides to be cranky. This will make you cringe, it is a P4B533 Asus Board. Do not be so sad though, my friend has a HP 64 Bit Athlon/VT ext., and this desktop will burn circles around his. They don't make them like they used to. I have a Athlon 64Bit 4000+ desktop also but somehow I just cant seem to leave this old one. Kernel = Linux ethies 2.6.18-164.11.1.el5 #1 SMP on CentOS Bits i686 > This only happens during the first load in a while - probably until > the cache for its pages clear, or it may be going out on the web to > check for updates, though this seems to take a long time. Check the settings for adobe because honestly I had to change mine! the cache settings i think for adobe reading pages ahead into memory. John