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Why libreOffice is so slow on mageia ?

New text document with OpenOffice (MDV 2010.2) : 2s
New text document with LibreOfice (Mageia beta 2) : 17s

any ideas ?

SM

Mageia beta2 64bit, amd x4 @2900Mhz, 4G Ram:
2 seconds with LibreOffice (3.3.2.2 -12 )
cheers,
Bernd

Here too
smoreau, did you compared cold starting (when system is freshly boot) or warm starting (when open / libreoffice was already started one time) ?
Because oo lo have a long cold start time and a short warm start time.

Sfiet_Konstantin wrote:Here too
smoreau, did you compared cold starting (when system is freshly boot) or warm starting (when open / libreoffice was already started one time) ?
Because oo lo have a long cold start time and a short warm start time.

I compare on the same machine (core 2 duo 2.4GHz) two cold starting of Openoffice (Mdv 2010.2) and LibreOffice (mageia)

I wonder if oo on Mandriva does not provide a preload session when starting.
Why do not do this with LO (and I'm sure that there is an option somewhere in the LO configs to enable this).

Start LibreOffice Writer->Tools->Options->Memory->Enable systray Quickstarter

isadora wrote:Start LibreOffice Writer->Tools->Options->Memory->Enable systray Quickstarter

Thanks isadora
(I'm really missing the "Thanks" button on forums, hope it will come quickly ...)

isadora wrote:Start LibreOffice Writer->Tools->Options->Memory->Enable systray Quickstarter

OK it improve largely the situation.

Thanks to all

SM

Unsintalling kde integration make libreoffice much faster, no need to use the quick starter. I also noticed that despite the quickstarter is active for the first run of Libreoffice (with kde integration) , it is not installed in the systray and the second run is slow. On the opposite when kde integration is desactivated all is functional.

See also a corresponding recommendation in the Mageia1 Errata

juergen_harms wrote:See also a corresponding recommendation in the Mageia1 Errata

Yes thanks, i read this, and thats why i tried this option. Apparently there are more advantages than mention in the errata page.
SM

FWIW, I couldn't reproduce this issue, i.e. there's not big difference in the launch time of libreoffice with and without the kde integration package (my point is, it shouldn't be added to the Errata unless it can be reproduced, as it maybe something specific to your installation, and not a general case).

Same impression here. I tried to measure the difference with a stop watch
1. Boot Mageia, start LO writer from the start menue
2. Remove libreoffice-kde
3. Reboot Mageia, start LO writer from the start menue

There was not even 2 seconds difference.

ahmad wrote:FWIW, I couldn't reproduce this issue, i.e. there's not big difference in the launch time of libreoffice with and without the kde integration package (my point is, it shouldn't be added to the Errata unless it can be reproduced, as it maybe something specific to your installation, and not a general case).

I tried to take into account your suggestion. So I used the more standard possible configuration.

Graphic card nvidia, driver nividia without desktop effects.
Window decoration iaora, oxygen-gtk rpm installed.
First situation : libreoffice kde integration installed and set (checked). Quick starter active and checked. The icon do not appear in the systray. First run of writer 2s, second run 10 s
Second situation : libreoffice kde integration withdraw. Quick starter still active. The icon is present in the systray. opening time for writer 2 s at each run. Without quick starter 10s.

I hope this could help. I wont be able to go further in the analyse, I wont be there for the next to weeks.

SM

Hi,

About the configuration of LibreOffice in the option: "enable systray quickstarter". Apparently, I did the tests, anb Its only is working in Mageia 1 using the GTK+ style ( selected in "System Settings" on "Style" in "Style Widgets", "GTK+")




In IaOra-Kde style, this icon doesn't appear.



What is important to me is not that icon to be there or not ( I do not click it). The important thing is that when it's there, I click in the normal icon of LibreOffice and it opens immediately, in half a second.

I tried this :
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/glo ... 14172.html
and now libreoffice open in less than 1 second.

A long time ago (when I still had a computer with a floppy drive), I found that the OpenOffice startup time was much faster when the floppy drive was disabled in the BIOS. It must do some check of available devices on startup, and if there is a slow response from any of them, that causes the long startup time some users see.

I'm still using OpenOffice 3.3.0 (LibreOffice has too many regressions for me to use it), and here it starts from cold in less than 3 seconds and from warm in about half a second, without using the systray quickstarter.

FWIW I used Open/Star Office ( Java based ) on Solaris back
in like 02/03. You could go have lunch from launch
to a usable window.

wilcal wrote:FWIW I used Open/Star Office ( Java based ) on Solaris back
in like 02/03. You could go have lunch from launch
to a usable window.

So did I. Even WordStar run from a floppy drive on a CPM-80 machine started quicker than that!
[but I digress!]