OpenOffice.org/Performance Tips

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In early versions of OpenOffice.org, before 1.1, it was cursed with a large speed problem, taking a long time to load, often over a minute. There are some benchmarks showing OOo-2.0 still uses a lot of memory is slower then MS-Office but OOo developers promised they are working on improvements.

If you want to OpenOffice.org startup even faster, try these speed boosting tricks.

• Upgrade to the latest stable version.
• Use the quickstarter.
• Have you run prelink?
• Upgrade your RAM, OpenOffice.org needs at least 64Mb, but it will be a lot happier with more.
• Use native file formats, converting to other formats takes time.
• If you are using Linux, use your distributions packages, they are typically more optimized than the plain ones.
• If you are compiling OpenOffice.org, make sure you are using the right cflags. A well tuned selection can have a 20% increase. Using the latest version of GCC can also make a big difference.

• If you try renaming a folder containing a new OO document, you may get an error message saying the folder can't be renamed because it's being used--even if you've closed the document. Here's a workaround: Just move the document out of that folder, rename the folder and move the document back in.