performance/response to user input

kotsopoulos · Red Pill Joined: Jan 29, 2004 Posts: 6

I've installed both neooffice/j and OOo/X11 on my (relatively) new G4 iBook, 800MHz, 256MB RAM.

Now that I think I've exhausted the possiblities for improving the way fonts look under X11 (terrible) I'm turning to the neoofice forums to see if I can speed up the performance of neooffice/j (annoyingly slow)

Is there anything that can help? Where are the performance bottlenecks?

schlesi · Posted: Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:20 am Post subject:

Put more RAM in your iBook! That's a benefit for all programs and Mac OS X itself Wink

Thomas

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

You are using NeoOffice/J 0.8 I hope. My experience on both my G4 PowerMac (3 years old) and my wife's G3 PowerMac (4 years old) is that NeoJ 0.8 runs a slight bit slower than OOo 1.0.3 X11.

If you are comparing NeoJ to OOo 1.1 X11, then you are comparing apples and oranges since Sun made all sorts of performance enhancements in the OOo 1.1 code that did not exist in the much slower OOo 1.0.3 code.

Patrick

Pinolo · Guest

I agree with schlesi. RAM is the way to go. I have an iBook just like yours, but with 640M RAM. Here the performance of NO/J 0.8 is accettable and, like Patrick says, comparable with OOo 1.0.3 X11.

nedrichards · Agent Joined: Sep 18, 2003 Posts: 18

Having tested 1.0 and 1.1 on pretty much every platform they can run on I think it's safe to say that the 1.1 codebase is *mises* faster, more user friendly and stable. I can only echo the need for more RAM. I've got 512mb RAM on my 800Mhz g4 and things run much more nippily than with 256. OS X just loves RAM.

Paraplegic_Racehorse · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:04 pm Post subject:

RAM is, currently, your best bet. OOo 1.0.3 and Neo/J (any version I've installed) run much faster on my 500MHz G3 iMac w/512 RAM than on my 600MHz G3 iBook w/128 RAM. The upgrade to Panther and then the Java update release several weeks ago really improved performance of Neo/J (I stopped using the X11 release a few months ago because Neo/J is now fast enough for me).

amake · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 2:20 pm Post subject:

I have the same machine as the original poster, and due to some mix ups with Crucial I was running it with only 256MB of RAM for a good month or so.

It was torture.

Grab a 512MB piece from Crucial (excellent brand, competitive price: ~$100). Your iBook will thank you.

A more detailed explanation of why RAM is so important follows:

OS X likes to use lots of RAM. If you look at Activity Monitor right after booting up, you'll see that there is very little of your 256MB of RAM still free. Every app you use decreases the free RAM count further. When you run out, unused data in the RAM is "paged out" to the hard drive (which is slow). When your RAM is full and you go to launch something big and RAM-hungry, like Neo/J, your computer has to simultaneously page out and load Neo/J, making things feel ridiculously slow. If you have more RAM you will be able to load more apps, and you will have to page out less.

jimlaurent · Captain Joined: Jun 23, 2003 Posts: 55

chris c · Guest

0.8.1 runs just dandy on my old beat to hell G3 Wallstreet! So well as a matter of fact that it has just now replaced by Brand X install of 1.0.3.

The weird thing is and it is probably particular to my gear..... it runs like a dog on my desktop. And the desktop has double the RAM and a faster drive and processor.

pluby · The Architect Joined: Jun 16, 2003 Posts: 11949

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