Opening wordprocessor takes long time in ubuntu 10.04

[karthick87]

I am using ubuntu 10.04, OpenOffice Wordprocessor takes very long time to open a document..Does anyone face this problem here..?

[warfacegod]

Depends on what you mean by a long time. My OOo Writer usually takes about 7 - 15 seconds. If I have half a dozen or more other apps running, it's not unusual for it to take the better part of a minute.

[kerry_s]

you got to tweak the memory & disable the java.
tools-> options

[karthick87]

Depends on what you mean by a long time. My OOo Writer usually takes about 7 - 15 seconds. If I have half a dozen or more other apps running, it's not unusual for it to take the better part of a minute.

It takes 1 minute for me to open a word document,its pretty slow na..?

[Baneblade]

Just tested mine now for you.
9 sec - cold start
2 sec - cached

How long is yours taking roughly?
Also, could you post your machines specs please. It will be easier to give you a rough estimate on what kind of performance you should be expecting.

Note: This test was done on my laptop (Custom-frankenstein'd Core2Duo, 4Gig, 7200rpm; Based on an HP DV2910us) not the system in my sig.

[philinux]

Mine takes about 2 secs to open the writer from cold.

However some peeps are getting very slow results.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1512422

[karthick87]

CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU E7400 @ 2.80GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR2

[warfacegod]

That is pretty sluggish for those specs. I'd start by reducing swapiness to amore reasonable level. The default 60 is too high for my taste, go with 20 - 30 or so. I don't even have a swap partition at all. Reducing swapiness will force the system to use more RAM instead of HDD as RAM. See post #3 about how to do that. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.p...ight=swapiness

[Matt__]

You could always try Abiword instead of open office.

It should be in the repositories (not on my linux box atm so I'm not 100% on that)

sudo apt-get install abiword-gnome

if not go here

>>Download Abiword<<

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[Sir Jasper]

Hi,

Something is very, very wrong. I wonder if it may help to run top or htop or gnome-system-monitor to see if anything seems odd as you load a document.

My regards