[ILUG] Office migrations to Linux

[David Murphy]

On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 12:19:25 +0100, Conor Daly <conor.daly at oceanfree.net> wrote:

> Doesn't OOo have a 'preload' option?  Or is that doze only?  It appears to
> be the 'quickstarter' option in the Tools -> Options -> Memory page but,
> in OOo 1.1.0 on RH9 it's not showing up but it's there in the help.  Maybe
> there's a commandline option you can pass in a .bash_profile or .bashrc

The thing to remember about 'preload' options is that they are only
really good for two things:

1) Keeping stuff around in memory as a hedge against lame VM systems.
2) Fooling you into thinking the program starts faster by loading some
of the stuff while you are waiting around for the login process to
finish instead of loading it while you are waiting around after saying
'run program'.

I suggest directing effort at either faster hardware, or smaller software.

-- 
David Murphy