On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 18:39 -0500, kevin johnston wrote: > I just had a strange thing happen: > > I have a pretty big spreadsheet (.ods): 3 pages x 250,000 cells in each, > plus maybe 50,000 graphic objects (simple rectangles). But it used to > open in OOo Calc 2.0.2 in about 1.5 minutes, and I can live with that. > > But sometime yesterday (not sure exactly when) I did something (not sure > exactly what) and everything slowed to a crawl. It took a full minute > after a right mouse click for a menu to draw. (I'm not exaggerating.) > > It took 3 minutes to paste a copy of one cell into another cell. > > It took 7 minutes to go from one sheet to another. > > It took 93 minutes to save the file. (I waited for it a while, gave up, > went to the grocery store, it was still crunching away when I got back.) > > It took 9 minutes to quit the program. > > It took 40 minutes to restart and re-open the file. (I didn't think to > stop and restart the QuickStarter, maybe I should have.) > > I opened up the Windows TaskManager, and during all of this there was > almost no CPU activity at all, but the disk was thrashing like crazy. 15 > million page faults. > > I shut down the program again and did a disk defrag. (But still didn't > restart the QuickStarter.) Made no difference. > > I decided to reboot. During the shutdown, Windows said a couple of > programs weren't responding: > > "Xprt message" something-or-other; > "DDE server" something-or-other; > "soffice.bin" > > After the reboot, everything seems to be back up to speed. For > comparison: 150K page faults. > > So a couple of questions: > > What's the difference between soffice.exe and soffice.bin? While I was > using the program, it was soffice.exe that was racking up the CPU time > and page faults, so what's soffice.bin? > > Are "Xprt message" thingy and "DDE server" thingy components of OOo, or > are they Windows components? > > Do Xprt or DDE give anyone any ideas what I should try *not* to do again > in the future? > > System: > Windows XP > OOo 2.0.2
I had this happen to the user guide when it was one big file. I had to rebuild. If you can, file an issue and attach the file. I suspect something has been damaged and what you see is the result. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/
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