On 08/16/2008 02:47 AM, bill purvis wrote: > On Friday 15 August 2008, Cor Nouws wrote: >> Hi Bill, >> ... >> Makes me curious. >> - Can you pls write which specs for your PC, OS, version OOo? >> - And can you send me the presentation (off list) so that I can do some >> testing? >> - Also: this issue http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85029 >> holds some (quite technical) info that might be relevant for you. >> > Cor, > I think the problem may be elsewhere. I closed down the Impress file > and opened a Calc file. The CPU usage continued to be high: 50-99%. > Eventually it dawned on me that it might be something else going on > so I shut down soffice altogether, then restarted it with the Calc > file. No problem, a quick burst of CPU as it opened and displayed > then drop off to near zero. I then re-opened the Impress file and > CPU still seems to be low. Response in a slide-show seems quite > reasonable. Maybe there was something else going on? > > Afterthought - I do remember clicking on the pop-up that said a > new version of Open Office was available, but nothing happened. > Could that have started some thread that gobbled the CPU and slowed > down the Impress responses? > > Bill > >
Next time it happens open a terminal window and enter: top -d12 That will show you what is eating your cpu. The '-d12' just slows down the polling rate so that you can actually see what is going on in the event that processes are switching rapidly. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
