How to debug slow startup times?
Ilmari Lauhakangas
ilmari.lauhakangas at libreoffice.org
Fri Dec 11 19:58:39 UTC 2020
On 11.12.2020 19.36, Paul Menzel wrote:
> My parents, the most important users, noted slow startup times of
> LibreOffice. It turns out, that lots of installed fonts slow it down
> considerably [1].
>
> Unrelated from this concrete issue, do you have tools to debug the
> startup time? I tried `strace -ff -ttt -o …`, but it turned out to be
> quite convoluted, but also pointed to some six seconds gap. Do you have
> tools or scripts to start LibreOffice with the right switches or
> programs, and print out the greatest offenders?
https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Development/How_to_debug#Performance_debugging_.28perf.29
Note that you need symbols, either from your distro packages or in your
own build.
Ilmari
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