Running openoffice.org-1.1.2-11.5.fc3 with xorg-x11-6.8.1-12.FC3.1 and kernel-2.6.9-1.678_FC3.i686 on an Intel Mobile Pentium II 366. OpenOffice runs *incredibly* slowly - in particular, rendering fonts is dog slow: you can see the characters appear one by one, barely more quickly than the speed of a fast typist. (Made worse by the fact that it feels the need to re-render most of the screen on a regular basis!) It's using lots of CPU, which makes it fairly unusable when anything else is trying to. All was fine before the upgrade to FC3.
caolanm->chris: Is this still the case with all updates ?
Not seeing this, especially with an uptodate rawhide
I think it's better than it was: I haven't had the machine grind to a halt in quite such a spectacular way recently. But it's still painfully slow. I have all the same updates running on a desktop machine with an 800MHz processor, more memory, and a different graphics card, and performance is fine there. So I would say it's just that my Pentium II 366 laptop can't handle it. But that doesn't explain the *massive* change on the FC2->FC3 upgrade.