On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, John Lagrue wrote:
This has been raised before but I have a bad problem with OO on FC3.
I
start it...the banner appears and the blue progress bar quickly goes
across to 100% - and then nothing happens for at least 5 minutes.
Nothing to do with swapping or CPU. The CPU load falls to zero, disc
activity ceases.....but no window appears for absolutely ages. The
system doesn't hang up, because all other activities can continue;
browsing, email etc.
This is on an Celeron M320 with 256Mb, 20Gb and 490Mb swap space.
Any ideas?
check your disk I/O speed. OO takes quite a hit on the disk to load.
My laptop (Inspiron 8200) has obtained a really low disk I/O speed,
as checked with the command
hdparm -t /dev/hda
of about 3-10 MB/sec (erratic). Previously I had found out
that it was a bad interaction between the cd-automounter
(magicdev for gnome on previous versions of redhat), but i'm
now also getting this I/O rate on the console. I didn't see anything
wrong with the DMA setting, though should doublecheck. That kind of
bug of not setting it correctly is from the long past.
So, basically I have the same problem (perhaps not as much as 5 minutes
though), but I don't know how to get my disk back to full speed
(in my case rh9 gives me 27MB/sec).
- peter