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2007/4/30, Johnny Andersson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
2007/4/30, NoOp < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 04/28/2007 03:57 PM, Johnny Andersson wrote: > > > > > I can't see why it wouldn't be "safe". Depends on what you mean by > > "safe" I guess. 128 MB? Well, it will probably work, but it might be > > very slow. I tried to run OpenOffice.org 2.0 a few months ago on my > > old machine (P2, 450 MHz and 320 MB) and it was way too slow for me. > > I run OOo [linux] 2.2 everyday on a 450Mhz/256MB and it runs just fine > for me. I also run it on 300Mhz/256MB and 650Mhz/256MB machines without > any problems. That said, I have a customer with a Win2KP 350Mhz/196MB > machine, and running OOo (or anything else for that matter) on it is > unbearably slow. The only reason why I've held off converting it to > linux is that the hard drive is only 3Gb. > > I wouldn't recommend 128MB for OOo and would recommend 256MB minimum. > > > Now I have a 1,6 GHz laptop with 2 GB and OpenOffice.org 2.2. It > > doesn't feel slow any more but not fast either. > > What OS are you using? A 1.6Ghz/2GB machine should be able to run > blazingly fast.
Well, I guess I am just sensitive in that case. Right now I have XP SP2 with some shit going on in the background (anti-virus, firewall, etc). Opening a 800 kB Calc file (in this case a sxc, since I created it a few years ago) takes about 20 (TWENTY) seconds. Even longer after a fresh start of Windows, especially without the quickstarter. One of the cheets contains about 2200 rows 22 columns. Half of them use conditional formatting. There are a lot of VLOOKUPs. Doing autofilter on that sheet with OpenOffice.org 2.2 seems to be impossible. Actually I started one at 10:38, it's 10:40 soon and I will give it a few more minutes (although I think that one or maximum 2 second could be acceptable; 2200 rows and 22 columns is almost nothing). Wow, it actually finished! At almost 10:43. Almost 5 minutes, at least 4. This is truly terrible! I will now redefine the autofilter area to include 65529 rows (the header is at row 8, so the first 7 lines are not included). Let's see how long it takes. Starting filtering at 10:52:00. Finished filtering at 10:52:25! Strange! Why did it suddenly go much faster? But 25 seconds is still ridiculously slow. Seems to depend on what I select in the filter drop down list. I try the same as I did when it took 4-5 minutes last time: Starting filtering at 10:54. Finished filtering at 11:07. Total time: 13 minutes. In this case it found 3 rows, I guess it takes some time to hide 65526 rows. I will now do this manually, using Search and then hide the rows manually (not one by one, of course): Starting at 11:17. Finished at 11:23. Total time: 6 minutes. Trying a quicker, but still manual method: Starting at 11:25. Finished at 11:27. Total time: 2 minutes. Sorry for stealing this thread, once I started to test things I can't stop... ;) It would be interesting to know why it takes so long to filter these 2200 rows. Does it hide the filtered rows one by one? maybe I should file a bug report (asking for a speed enhancement) about this? Just for my own curiosity, I will now install OpenOffice.org 1.1.5 on this machine for the first time and try to do the same thing again: First the case that took 25 s with OpenOffice.org 2.2: OpenOffice.org 1.1.5: 10 s Then the case that took 4-5 minutes with OpenOffice.org 2.2: OpenOffice.org 1.1.5: 10 s Hm.. it really looks like there is a some kind of Autofilter bug in OpenOffice.org 2.2, doesn't it? Of course, when I'm just typing, I can notice no delay of any kind, but I would be surprised if there was. It's when doing the heavy stuff things feels slow. When running OpenOffice.org 2.0 on my old 450 MHz 320 MB machine mentioned above, I could even notice a delay when I was typing! Every character appeared on the screen maybe half a second delayed or something like that. Very annoying. If I type fast (which I usually do) I have to sit and wait for the whole sentence to be completed on the screen if I want to check if what I typed makes sense, and if it was a long sentence, it could take several seconds! But again, that was with my old system (which had Windows 98 by the way, since XP was way too slow for it, I have tried that too and it only made me mad). Johnny Andersson
> > About "the other computer", you didn't say anything about it. Is it a > > newer computer than the P3 1 GHz 128 MB one? > > > > It shouldn't matter what computer you use to download it, not much > > anyway. > > > > When downloaded it, if you want a CD to install from, just copy the > > downloaded file to the CD using your favourite CD burning software. > > Then put the CD into the "other" computer, double click the file on > > it and OpenOffice.org will be installed, won't it? I think so anyway, > > until someone proved me wrong. > > > > Johnny Andersson > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
