On 06/23/2009 05:16 AM, AG wrote:
... I suppose another issue is the length of time it takes to autosave: with 3Gb of RAM and a further 3Gb allocated to my swap partition, one would think that there'd be plenty of memory for OOo to use in the save process....
I can only guess, but I believe that the autosave produces a file that is exactly the same as a regular save, so I doubt that the save time has much to do with available memory. I suspect it is more limited by disk access and maybe compression (cpu) time, and a different save strategy would be necessary to speed things up significantly.
I think if I was focused on doing a lot of input and the autosave was a big distraction, I would consider turning it off and just make a habit of hitting Ctrl+S every couple of paragraphs, when I had a pause for some reason. It would be less distracting to save manually at a time when I was already 'shifting gears'.
After all, the autosave is only insurance, and I don't think I've ever seen OOo just blow up and crash while I was typing.
Here's the only relevant issue I could find: http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=25298 <Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
