Cross posting to the ooo-dev list, since they might be more familiar with server-side use of OOo. Do we know of a regression in 3.3 with resource leaks and PDF conversion?
-Rob On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 8:12 AM, Herter, Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > OpenOffice 2.4 was tested under both Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7 and > did not get slower as time went on. OpenOffice 3.3 was tested under both > Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7 and only got slower under Windows 2008 > Server. > > Main memory remained stable over time. > > OpenOffice memory would go up until we restarted it after every 1000 uses. > If we don't restart it OpenOffice will crash before it makes it to 2000 uses. > The crashing seems to be an issue under Windows. We have seen the memory > increase in the OpenOffice process in Linux but OpenOffice did not crash > before our test ended. This is the same for both OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.3. > > OpenOffice leaks Windows Desktop Heap memory, this is a Windows only issue. > It eventually eats up all the Windows Desktop Heap for a given virtual > Desktop (interactive or service) and the desktop needs to be destroyed and > recreated, either by logging out and logging back in, stopping and starting > the service, or rebooting. This is the same for both OpenOffice 2.4 and 3.3. > Unfortunately Microsoft has not provided a way to look at the Desktop heap > for Windows 2008 Server and Windows 7. This used to be possible under > Windows XP and Windows 2003 server. I don't know if OpenOffice 3.3 is eating > up Windows Desktop Heap and a faster rate than OpenOffice 2.4. I will have > to get a Windows 2003 Server VM going at some point to check that out. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Rob Weir [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2011 5:21 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Volume Issue > > On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Herter, Scott <[email protected]> > wrote: >> We are using OpenOffice 3.3 on a server for a JEE application. The JEE >> application talks to OpenOffice using the UNO API to print documents and >> convert them to PDF. With 2.4 We managed to get over 1 million conversions >> on a single stress test. With OpenOffice 3.3 it got to around 50,000 and >> slowed down terribly. This was on a Windows 2008 Server. We ran the same >> test on Windows 7 and didn't have a slowdown. We were wondering if anyone >> new anything about performance issues when running OpenOffice 3.3. on a >> Windows server. >> >> Thanks. >> > > What was your OOo 2.4 test on? Windows 2008 Server or Windows 7? > You seem to be changing two variables, platform and OOo version, so it is > hard to say what the cause is, at least based on your note. > > Did you monitor things like process memory and system used paging file size? > Some sort of resource leak sounds likely. > > -Rob > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > >
