[arch-ports] [Arch64] Slow 32 bit apps And xf86-video-unichrome
Hy all I have switched from Arch to Arch64 about a week ago and (almost) everything is going fine. For openoffice and firefox with flash, I use the chroot trick to load the 32 bits version. However and especially for openoffice, the startup is significantly slower than on the 32 bit system. So I was wondering if some of you had tricks to fasten responsiveness of openoffice until they release a working 64 bit port. I use the following command : [strat@machinastratus]$ chroot /mnt/arch32 su strat -c /opt/openoffice/program/soffice.bin and, of course, /proc is binded to /mnt/arch32/dev as for dev and home. Secondly, I wonder if anyone uses the xf86-video-unichrome on a KM800 board since I can't get a working Xorg with it and I must stick with xf86-video-via. Anyway, these are not major issues, but I thank all responses in advances. -- Strat
For openoffice and firefox with flash, I use the chroot trick to load the 32 bits version. However and especially for openoffice, the startup is significantly slower than on the 32 bit system. So I was wondering if some of you had tricks to fasten responsiveness of openoffice until they release a working 64 bit port.
FYI, using 32 bit openoffice applications with a chroot command requires some extra binding thant /proc. I added them to the wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ) -- Strat
Hi folks, I didn't try to run 32 bit application through chroot, but I had a similar issues with 64 applications as well a few months ago, I told about it but never got a response. Before trying to move to Arch64 I tried to play with a couple of 64 bit OSs (Ubuntu, Gentoo) doing video encoding with XVID. It was 1.5 times slower, than in Arch32! I believe that the code wich use a lot of mathematical calculations should be rewritten as AMD people suggest - using their mathematical libraries. Just the recompiling the source for 64 bit system doesn't work. Sergey On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 20:26:19 -0400 Strat <pouletfou@gmail.com> wrote:
Hy all
I have switched from Arch to Arch64 about a week ago and (almost) everything is going fine.
For openoffice and firefox with flash, I use the chroot trick to load the 32 bits version. However and especially for openoffice, the startup is significantly slower than on the 32 bit system. So I was wondering if some of you had tricks to fasten responsiveness of openoffice until they release a working 64 bit port.
I use the following command :
[strat@machinastratus]$ chroot /mnt/arch32 su strat -c /opt/openoffice/program/soffice.bin
and, of course, /proc is binded to /mnt/arch32/dev as for dev and home.
Secondly, I wonder if anyone uses the xf86-video-unichrome on a KM800 board since I can't get a working Xorg with it and I must stick with xf86-video-via.
Anyway, these are not major issues, but I thank all responses in advances.
-- Strat
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