Caolan McNamara writes: > On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:42 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote: > > Here are the profile data without any symbols. As you can see, it's > > mostly the shared library loader. > > Nearly all of OOo's startup and timing woes boil down to shared library > relocations :-(. Hence the redhat custom swriter/scalc/sdraw > prelink-friendly launchers, and the novell -Bdirect work. Not much we > can do inside OOo to help such dlopened stuff I guess. Does dlopened stuff not work with prelinking? Anyway, the other interesting thing is the huge amount of _kernel_ time each time a wizard is used. What on earth can this be? Andrew.