Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 15/04/2009 21:27, David B Teague wrote:
Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 15/04/2009 18:44, David B Teague wrote:
The major symptom:
It takes 6 minutes to open a 32 K file odt file that contains only
formatted text. It takes 4 minutes to save this file. It closes
quickly.
The Task Manager says the total CPU usage during start up and
during the save is 100%, soffice.bin CPU is 80-90%.
I have other odt files of sizes up to 60K, that open in less that 5
seconds, once OO.o is loaded.
OO.o 3.0.1 with extensions:
Language Tool,
Pagination 1.3.7
PDF Import 0.3.2
PhotoAlbum 0.4
Spanish spelling dictionary
OS: Windows XP Professional with,
AMD Sempron 2800, 1.6 GHz,
333 MHz backplane,
1 GB RAM,
fast 250 MB disk.
I believe the file is somehow corrupt, but I cannot understand how.
I copied the text data to the clip board from the original
offending file into OO.o then saved under another file name. That
should have been OK, but it takes as long to load and save as the
original did.
This behavior just recently began.
Is further information needed? Does anyone have suggestions for
making a diagnosis of this anomaly?
Warmest Regards
David Teague
How close to full is your disk? How fragmented is it? An overly
fragmented disk is a frequent cause of deteriorating performance.
See if a de-frag helps. Also, how much swap file space ("virtual
memory") do you have? Slow performance on Windows is very often
associated with lack of this resource. Do you usually have many
programs open at once? Or lots of documents? Or browser tabs? These
things use virtual memory and slow the system down.
Harold:
Many thanks for your questions:
I have 150 GB or more of disk space left. I keep Diskeeper's
defragmenter running in the back ground. The Windows system
fragmentation tool does not find any defragmentation.
The Task Manager says swap is plenty big, and it says the process is
CPU bound. I can have sufficiently many programs open at once to
deteriorate performance, but I have enough CPU left while this is
going on to open and run Thunderbird, albeit annoyingly sluggishly,
during the wait. The task manager and the window say the process is
"not responding" (as if I couldn't tell that already :)
The number of tabs in Firefox never seems to give a problem. I don't
usually have resource problems except with memory when I have left
Thunderbird running over night. It has a memory leak. Then I have to
reboot to get the memory resource back.
I have fixed (?) the problem by deleting it. Here's what I did:
I found an rtf file that has this data, and also exhibited the slow
opening problem that had about a Megabyte of repeated lines. I
deleted these extra lines. OO.o now opens the rtf file quickly, if
OO.o is in memory, and takes the usual 30 to 45 seconds if not. I
stopped the problem saving the rtf copy back in the work folder as an
odf file. That now opens quickly. I then deleted all slow opening
files. Every thing now opens satisfyingly quickly.
I would say those files were subtly corrupted except when I renamed
them as .zip files they unpacked cleanly. I forget who suggested
that, but thanks, whoever did so.
I only wish I had been able to put my finger on something to tell you.
Warmest Regards
David Teague
Glad to hear you "solved" the problem; sorry to hear you didn't find
the actual cause. Compiuers are supposed to be logical.
That was before windows
--
Bill Drescher
william {at} TechServSys {dot} com
