Hi :) I think swap doesn't get used much these days. Can you try free -m
before and during the process? If swap is not being used even when it's in Ram then perhaps either stop using the ram-drive or increase swappiness? I have 2Gb Ram but only about half that ever gets used and that's only when i really push the machine with games and video Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: Kracked_P_P---webmaster <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013, 1:01 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing speed is glacial for large file > >On 04/10/2013 06:13 PM, David Ronis wrote: >> I have a project managed by an odm file that ends up being ca 1600 pages >> long and contains several OLE objects, many graphics (some comprising >> entire pages that started out as PDFs). I find LO unbelievably slow >> (even on such simple things as refreshing the window after remapping >> it). I've turned of recording/displaying changes, upped the graphics >> cache numbers, set the swap directory to a ram disk, and turned off all >> to-disk swapping; nothing helps. This is on a 2 CPU machine with gig's >> of ram. >> >> I'm currently trying to print the project to a file (postscript >> format). This takes 4-6 hours, with 1 of the CPU's running at 100% [BTW >> is LO multi-threaded?]. The resulting postscript file is big, (about >> 350M) but not that big. >> >> I'm on a Slackware Linux box. >> >> Any suggestions? >> >> David >> >> > >Which version of LO are you using? That might help with some answers. > >Have you made any modification the default settings of >Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Memory ? > >I know that some people have seen some good results with the increasing of the >different options for the memory usage for a document. Large ones that has a >lot of object/graphics/images could use more cache memoryand a larger "number >of objects". Then if you are not doing much editing, the reduction of the >"Undo - number of steps" could free up some needed memory and response time >for the document. > >The 1600 pages long and many graphics can slow down any system, when you are >"converting" the file to a postscript format. > >By-the-way - what are you using for the print-to-postscriptprocess? I do not >see that as a "included" part of LO 4.0.2. Are you printing it to a >postscript printer but are saving it to a file instead of printing out to >paper? That process would give our users some idea on the process and my have >some of the try some things that might find some answers. > >I use Ubuntu 12.04 with 2 HP printers [inkjet and laser], 1 Epson inkjet, and >1 Canon inkjet. None defaults to a postscript, but the HP laser has a >postscript driver. I may install it and do some testing myself. > >OK, I installed the foomatic-postscript driver for the laser printer. It can >print to a file. But would I need it to usethe "generic postscript printer >driver" to make it device independent as you seem to want it to be by >"printing" the file to a postscript file? > > > > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
