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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mon Mar 6 05:53:09 -0800 2006 ------- There has been some discussion about this on the QA Dev list, so I decided to try it for myself. After examining the situation, I would recommend reclassification as a defect. The defect summary would be "pasting into all cells in a workbook causes OOo Calc to hang." Here is my reasoning: In Excel, I typed "asdf" in a single cell, then copied that cell to all other cells. An hourglass appeared, then a progress dialog in the lower left corner of the Excel sheet. The progress dialog lasted until the operation completed, which took about 15 seconds. After 15 seconds every cell in the sheet had "asdf" in it without too much trouble. In Calc, I tried the same thing. I noticed the lack of a progress bar right away, which is what the RFE would be for. BUT, what really got me was the length of time it took to perform the paste! I decided to let Calc run until the paste completed, which was a mistake. 15 minutes later, Calc was still running and Windows gave me a "virtual memory low" error. At that point, I thought I had better cancel the operation in Calc, but there was no way to cancel. So I decided to kill Calc by clicking close... that didn't work. So I used CTRL+ALT+DELETE. Calc didn't respond to that either. Plus, it must have kept right on eating memory, because pretty soon Excel and Firefox, which had been idling in the background, crashed too. At this point I just rebooted, but even that operation took about 8 minutes to complete because of the low memory availbility during shutdown. So, I would say this is a defect. Expected Behavior: Calc should copy the contents of a single cell into the contents of the entire worksheet within a reasonable time frame, or should cancel the operation when it runs out of memory. Reasonable is defined here as within 1 or 2 minutes on a P4 machine w/ 512 MB RAM. (2 minutes would make Calc about 8 times slower than Excel, but that's still reasonable.) Actual Behavior: Calc begins the copy operation but never completes it. Instead, it continues to use up system memory until the entire system slows to a crawl or crashes altogether. Additional Notes: Calc seems to exhibit the same behavior when copying to multiple entire columns as well, which is a more likely scenario anyway. Also, maybe OS should be changed to Windows? Does OOo do this on Linux/BSD/Solaris? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]
