On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 00:06, John McCreesh wrote: > On Wed, 08 Oct 2003 15:17:36 +0530 > Sudev Barar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-10-08 at 13:11, Raj Mathur wrote: > > > > > > For the nth time :) > > > > > > http://www.geocrawler.com/archives/3/11286/2001/10/550/6879840/ > > > > Thank you Raj for (n+1)th patient reply. > > 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 > > Just a thought - OOo native file formats are compressed. If your user's > file is 12-16 Mb compressed, it must be pretty enormous uncompressed! > Maybe it's the compressing / uncompressing that's taking the CPU? What > if your user saves in Excel format (uncompressed)? > > John > In excel format time taken is longer :-(
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