On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:09 am, 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. > Sounds as though you didn't have enough real memory available for what was happening at the time so that pages were being swapped in and out of virtual memory without much activity in any state so it all grinds more or less to a stand still.
Defrag on the disk has little effect on this issue. It may have just been that whatever was running (and don't forget services) at the time happened to require more memory than you have. Other possibilities are that something has grabbed a lot of memory and then run amok , not permitting that part to be swapped. I have known systems to not recognise the existance of some part of memory occassionally at boot up. Then the system behaves as if your memory is much smaller than reality until the next reboot. If it is one of these issues then infomation should remain intact if you can suffer the painful slowness and not crash the system or application. Malcolm > 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 > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------- >------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
