My .02 worth.. I have 64 ram and can leave Star Office open collecting
pop mail and still, in another window, use Netscape with little problem. I
am also running windowmaker with xfree 4. Lovely desktop with 1024 x 768.

Kelly

Datawolf wrote:

> I've found that I need 64 MB to keep StarOffice from swapping much.
> That's under a lean WindowMaker setup.  To run Netscape and StarOffice
> at the same time, without swapping, I've found that 128 MB works.
>
> -BVG
>
> Joel Dudley wrote:
> >
> > Does star office run faster when running under Jave in the JRE?  I installed
> > it using the Java-less option and man is it slow.  I have a K6-2 300 with 48
> > MB of RAM on  my linux box and Star Office takes about 2 minutes just to
> > load up and when I am actually in it is is slower than heck.  Got a bit
> > better when I did hdparm -c3d1 /dev/hda, but still not usuable for my
> > patience today.  I got so frustrated I am now going to type my paper in
> > Office 97 on my Game Machine (please forgive me for my momentary weakness).
> > Come to think of it my entire Gnome experience has been much slower than I
> > am used to.  I have an 8 meg 3D labs card but Xconfigurator only found it to
> > have 512 K of RAM I tried to set it manually.  Could X perhaps be
> > underutilizing my card?  Maybe I should just get a better Card like a viper
> > v550, anyone have on for trade/sale?  Thanks in advance as always.
> >
> > - Joel
> >
> > Just realizing my path out of newbiedom just got longer
> >
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