On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 19:44, Patrick Rea wrote: > On Wednesday 08 October 2003 05:47 am, Sudev Barar wrote: > > Now I am still struck with question of why the spreadsheet in OpenOffice > > is running slow. Granted it was a huge file of 12 / 16 MB but the > > machine on which I am running it has 2GB RAM with p4 2.3Mhz processor. > > Opening this file took almost 5 minutes and so did save. There is no > > setting in OpenOffice that impacted these timings. Top showed that this > > process was taking 90%~97% of the CPU usage and up to 25% of the memory > > (500MB???!!!) during this period. > > Can you point toward further reading / approach to see how I could make > > things faster.....?? > > TIA > > This sounds like a network bottleneck What is the LAN running 10 or 100, > through a switch or a hub? I have noticed the OO can be a bit of a pig when > it loads spreadsheets that ave a lot of links within itself. The first past > through as it calculates even on a small sheet can be a while. > > Patrick Rea > Toronto, ON, CANADA > http://www.patrickrea.org
Patrick The network is 100mbps with 24 port switch. iptraf shows reasonable throughput on RTL8139 cards. I am making effort to replace these cards with 3Com cards on the server. -- Sudev Barar Learning Linux ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. SourceForge.net hosts over 70,000 Open Source Projects. See the people who have HELPED US provide better services: Click here: http://sourceforge.net/supporters.php _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
