Bug#1022173: Arbitrary and frequent 100% CPU load symptom with Libreoffice Writer 1:7.0.4
Hi, Am 21.10.22 um 21:23 schrieb Thorsten Glaser: On Fri, 21 Oct 2022, Rene Engelhard wrote: Maybe time to get hardware from this or last century even? Excuse me! That’s so totally not acceptable. Debian runs on such machines, and I personally also have an EeePC, and, to reduce electronic waste, reusing of older machines is perfectly fine. True. But then they know or should know that stuff might become slow. Some people might not have the budget for newer machines or their, generally increased, power consumption. I'd actually argue that current processors are more power-efficient than a Pentium M Your statement on the other hand was dismissive and insulting on top. And this report has a too high severity. And was on a non-supported distro anymore. And for backports which doesn't belong here. Regards, Rene
Bug#1022173: Arbitrary and frequent 100% CPU load symptom with Libreoffice Writer 1:7.0.4
On Fri, 21 Oct 2022, Rene Engelhard wrote: > Maybe time to get hardware from this or last century even? Excuse me! That’s so totally not acceptable. Debian runs on such machines, and I personally also have an EeePC, and, to reduce electronic waste, reusing of older machines is perfectly fine. Some people might not have the budget for newer machines or their, generally increased, power consumption. Your statement on the other hand was dismissive and insulting on top. bye, //mirabilos
Bug#1022173: Arbitrary and frequent 100% CPU load symptom with Libreoffice Writer 1:7.0.4
Am Fri, 21 Oct 2022 15:21:11 +0200 schrieb Rene Engelhard : Hello Rene, sorry for having sent this report to the wrong listing. I followed the instructions found here: https://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting there was nothing mentioned about different treatment for backports at all, and I'm not that experienced in bug reporting. >Let's merge them since the description sounds familiar enough. Please feel free to assign, move or merge with whatever you consider to be appropriate. >Wow. I have no other system running besides this old but fast 32bit notebook, which is still absolutely fit and fine for everyday work (I'm not compiling or programming, being translator, not programmer). It is even fit for gimp image manipulation of large images, or dual head multimedia display up to 3000kbps and surfing the web fast and fluently, you'd not guess its age. > Buster is out of life. I know, but I'm running LTS until June 2024 on this notebook, since some of its hardware components are not supported properly in bullseye anymore by the drivers. Somebody decided to remove the needed code. > Does it still happen with bullseye? (Assume so since the buster-backports > version is built from bullseye) > Does it happen with the version in bullseye-backports? I'll check this both as soon as possible. Will have to setup a parallel bullseye install here first for testing. Then I can definitely state whether it happens with the non backported bullseye version of Libreoffice also. Maybe I can even run a test on bookworm, but I'm not sure by now whether and when I can free up some time for all this testing in OS versions I have not running or even installed here. > (Btw, you want to upgrade to deb11u4 backport whenever it is approved > immediately to fix a security bug) Many thanks for this security warning, I'll watch out, as always, for the update. Regards Robin
Bug#1022173: Arbitrary and frequent 100% CPU load symptom with Libreoffice Writer 1:7.0.4
severity 1022173 minor forcemerge 964549 1022173 thanks Hi, Am 21. Oktober 2022 14:39:13 MESZ schrieb Robin : >Looks possibly like a regression of a bug reported in 2020 already for an >older Libreoffice release: >#964549 Well, that one never was handled at all, actually. It's open still. Let's merge them since the description sounds familiar enough. Regards Rene -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
Bug#1022173: Arbitrary and frequent 100% CPU load symptom with Libreoffice Writer 1:7.0.4
notfound 1022173 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3_bpo10+1 found 1022173 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3 tag 1022173 + moreinfo thanks Am 21. Oktober 2022 14:39:13 MESZ schrieb Robin : >Package: libreoffice-writer >Version: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3_bpo10+1 No. You even say the correct version below: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 The _ is just because the UI displays the ~ wrongly. In a related note, read the docs. https://backports.debian.org/Instructions/ clearly says: "Report Bugs Please report bugs in backported packages to the backports mailing list and NOT to the Debian BTS! " >CPU threads: 1; (...) > $ lscpu > Architecture: i686 > CPU op-mode(s): 32-bit > Byte Order: Little Endian > Address sizes: 32 bits physical, 32 bits virtual > CPU(s): 1 > On-line CPU(s) list: 0 > Thread(s) per core: 1 > Core(s) per socket: 1 > Socket(s): 1 > NUMA node(s): 1 > Vendor ID: GenuineIntel > CPU family: 6 > Model: 13 > Model name: Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz Wow. Maybe time to get hardware from this or last century even? >$ lsb_release -a >No LSB modules are available. >Distributor ID:Debian >Description: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) >Release: 10 >Codename: buster Buster is out of life. Does it still happen with bullseye? (Assume so since the buster-backports version is built from bullseye) Does it happen with the version in bullseye-backports? (Btw, you want to upgrade to deb11u4 backport whenever it is approved immediately to fix a security bug) Regards Rene -- Diese Nachricht wurde von meinem Android-Gerät mit K-9 Mail gesendet.
Bug#1022173: Arbitrary and frequent 100% CPU load symptom with Libreoffice Writer 1:7.0.4
Package: libreoffice-writer Version: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3_bpo10+1 Severity: important When editing a Document in Libreoffice everything is fine, even when it's a very large document > 150 pages and this lasts some hours. But the behaviour described below is independent of document size. When minimising the Libreoffice window, or putting it into background, while working in other program windows, after an arbitrary period CPU load raises to 100%, causing cooling fan to run at constant highest speed and slowing down your work remarkably. Sometimes this starts after some minutes already, sometimes after some hours only after the Libreoffice window was lost focus. It is unpredictable. Workaround for this I found is to maximise or restore or make active Libreoffice window, which will stop the 100% load immediately, going down to the default 1% to 5 % system load. It will happen again and again, independent of which document is edited. This behaviour is quite anoying when working in multiple documents/drawings at the same time or when an internet research is needed to complete a text document, or an image is to be prepared for the document in between, since you can't predict when Libreoffice starts going mad. It happens even when working in two Libreoffice Writer documents parallel in two windows. If the first window has not the focus, libreoffice will stall after some time. Once it has started this, you can repeatedly switch the windows, causing allways the CPU go up to 100% and switching from 800MHz to 1,7GHz mode, if the first Libreoffice Writer window looses focus, either by minimising it or by activating any another window, so the Libreoffice window concerned is in background, and CPU is going back to normal immediately always when first Libreoffice Writer window gets active again. Example: activate the 1st Libreoffice window → 2% System load (0% soffice.bin) activate any other window including 2nd Libreoffice document windows: → 100% System load (98% soffice.bin) activate the 1st Libreoffice window → 2% System load (0% soffice.bin) activate any other window including 2nd Libreoffice document windows: → 100% System load (98% soffice.bin) activate the 1st Libreoffice window → 2% System load (0% soffice.bin) minimise to tray the 1st Libreoffice window → 100% System load (98% soffice.bin) activate the 1st Libreoffice window → 2% System load (0% soffice.bin) and so on... No other program I know of shows this or a similar behaviour for me. Now I found out it can get set back temporarly to accept not having the focus by re-saving the document, even when nothing has been changed since the last saving. Then the CPU load will stay for some time at normal again, but again after an arbitrary period the issue will start anew, exactly as described above. You can repeat this also unlimited times, so no proper work is possible. —This also happens when running Libreoffice in protected mode exactly the same. —The behaviour is independend of size of the document. —It happens with all documents. –This is not restricted to Writer, same happens to Calc. Other Libreoffice components may be affected also. —Nice down soffice.bin doesn't change things, but prevents at least other programs from being slowed down by this exorbitant CPU usage of Libreoffice, so system stays responsible. —When Libreoffice is ideling in its document selection launch (where you can select previously used documents from a screen) without a document being opened in one of its components, this issue doesn't happen at all. Looks possibly like a regression of a bug reported in 2020 already for an older Libreoffice release: #964549 And also this even older report (from 2018) might be of some interest: https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=117684 Please, could you finally fix this issue? It's annoying and keeps from using Libreoffice, since it drains notebook accu. Technical data: Libreoffice (as reported by "about" in GUI) : Installed version: Version: 7.0.4.2 Build ID: 00(Build:2) CPU threads: 1; OS: Linux 4.19; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3 Locale: de-DE (de_DE.UTF-8); UI: de-DE Debian package version: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3_bpo10+1 Calc: threaded $ apt-cache policy libreoffice* | grep -v '(keine)' | grep -B1 Installiert libreoffice-math: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-gtk3: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-core: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-l10n-de: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-base-core: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-impress: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-help-de: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-help-common: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-style-colibre: Installiert: 1:7.0.4-4+deb11u3~bpo10+1 libreoffice-writer: Installiert:
