https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89896
--- Comment #12 from Dennis Van Dusen <[email protected]> --- good questions The problem is pretty intense. I found that when I was importing a table from word (fyi, word has this interesting bug that others don't seem to know about, except that MS has told me that it has been around for a long time and nobody thinks it is a priority since it is not a highly used feature on the mac. the problem is that when you are editing a table with a lot of cuts and pastes, the hotkey for 'copy' changes to the function of paste - and you cannot change it back without restarting word.). So, take it over to the thing that works -- Libre. Except, when you get it there, the CPU jumps to 100% or so (mac i5 dual, with 16g memory) When this happened before, I always wondered if it was me or Libre, or word, and I could easily try it in word 2010 on Parallels. This time I got more frustrated because I had to merge tables and WORD refused to allow it. Libre seemed to allow a better result by converting to tab and back. So, I opened one window and seemed to get there, but there were some hickups. Being frustrated with the work itself, I started to evaluate. The cpu took off, but there were also 'recent hangs' happening, and there were so many context changes. I looked at memory - and stripped down the running processors, and checked the drive, and loaded the file into pages and word 2010, and 2003, and it was not apparently corrupted. So, I upgraded Libre - and got a worse result - the hangs were more obvious and there was no recovery after some waiting - for quiescence. So, next step was to check ODT file - I needed to do that to get the table operation to work - at least I thought so. Got the conversion done, so I could move it back to WORD 2011. Ouch - nearly immediately the word bug showed up. (I reported it 4 years ago, and MS gave me a refund because they KNEW it was a bug!- they didn't even hesitate). So, I had to go back to Libre to protect my brain. Now, I needed to have 2 windows open on the doc. I had converted back to .docx, and believed that your internal structure and code would be common between the file types, but that might be wrong. I opened the second window - and went into an 'active' hang state - I just got the beachball, and could not get any menu commands to work - I stripped apps out of the processor, and nothing changed in Libre (4.4.1.2)/.docx) (memory taken - virtual 3.21G, real 259M) I found that if I force-quit, then opened Libre and did not recover the file (tried it both ways 3 or 4 times each - either recover or trash the recovery file and open blank)) In each case, if I opened with the recovery, it was back to 100%. If I opened clean, Libre would 'usually' come up and quiesce to 4% CPU or so. In a few cases, I would get a 'Libre Crashed' stack/system info window, and had to 'REOPEN'. That would ALWAYS bring up a clean empty instance unless I was stupid enough to recover and walk back into the disaster. So, there were times when it would NOT give me the system info/trace window. Then it sometimes opened and crashed, and then the above would occur or it would start clean all by itself (I would have to invoke it of course). So, then I decided to go back to 4.3.6.2. Seemed to be 'slightly better' - did not seem to fail right away. I soon found out that it was the same. Now, please understand that I was getting productive for about 15 hours out of 24 that I was using it. This was all spurious for a long time. (all within this past weekend). Then it locked up. Then I got irritated because pages would not work, word failed, and libre locked up. Time to get into this deeper. Created a new instance in Parallels with Word 2015. Saw that it was really no different from word 2011 and too slow. Gave up before I ran into the old bug, but still curious. I tried to use one window - it would work, but I could not get anywhere fast ( had to scroll up and down 80 pages). Then I found that 2 windows would work again, but nailed down two bugs (one not yet reported, the other confirmed now - involving cut and paste etc.) So, now I am at the point where if I am lucky and patient, I can get an ODT file to open and work up to a point. Then the recent hangs starts back to 1 per 3-5 seconds, and context switches (--- with only background stuff working - no other apps, and with 5G free memory) would occur about 1000 time per second -- intense - made me proud to have a fast processor to allow that. So now, it is still spurious, and I cannot nail it down much without knowing the internals, having a test bench, etc. (I am an attorney with a major cmp sci background). It happens in both odt and docx, but seems?? to be more in docx. It occurs in both 4.4.1.2 and 4.3.6.2 - really the same. I don't know what logs would help. I have a deadline so I cannot worry too much about this document until wednesday, and will use word for the work product, but REALLY want Libre to go absolutely mainstream. If you give me a little direction I can limit the issue a bit. Hope that helps. D -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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