--- James McKenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CPHennessy wrote: > > >On Thu March 2 2006 19:39, Andre Schnabel wrote: > > > > > >>Hi Dale, > >> > >>Dale schrieb: > >> > >> > >>>Hello > >>> > >>>I'm writing this message in frustration, after > upgrading to OO 2.0.1 on > >>>Ubuntu Linux 5.10, on a client of mine's system. > I get regular calls > >>>from them to assist when OO freezes their entire > system. In particular, > >>>it seems that if they 'paste' from within Calc > onto the top-left grid > >>>corner of an empty spreadsheet that things run > amok and OO consumes > >>>every last drop of their available 1GB of RAM. I > may be wrong of course > >>>and OO might be hogging the CPU? It's impossible > to tell, as the system > >>>becomes totally unusable and hence one can't view > what's happening. > >>> > >>> > >>what exactly are they doing? Means "paste on the > to-left grid corner" > >>that tey paste to Cell A1 or do they paste to > paste to the colum / row > >>header corner? > >> > >>If it is the second: this is not a memory leak, > this is behaviour as > >>designed. Because .. what they are doing is: > >>- select all cells of a spreadsheet > >>- past clipboard content to each single cell > >> > >>that means .. they would paste the content to > 16777216 cells. > >> > >> > > > >Which for many users may not be obvious and not > really useful ? > > > > > > > But they can and will do this. Maybe a warning > message could be given. > Something on like this: > "You are about to do a very large cut and paste > operation. This may > take a very long time. Are you sure?" Then give > the Ok/Cancel option. > > James >
This has alreday been filed as issue 59453 http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=59453 Lars ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
