-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 09/26/07 05:15, John O Laoi wrote: > Hello, > I am running Etch on a Dell Precision laptop. > I have one openoffice file, say XYZ.odt, which takes a long time to open > (maybe 25 minutes). > While it is opening, Openoffice is stalled.
No surprise there. > It is not big. ls-l reports its size as 18,000. > I have many much bigger files which open immediately. Maybe it's *highly* compressed and most of the time is spent in zlib. I've seen examples of corner cases that take forever to open. > I copied the file to SUSE linux that I have on a desktop, and the file > opened quickly. You neglect to mention the specs of the 2 machines. Maybe the desktop is 10x faster? > I tried changing its name. > I tried copying its contents to a new file. > I made a copy of the file (using cp). > I had some URLs in the file, which I changed to text (removed the blue and > underline) > I ran fsck on the filesystem on which it resides, and it reported no bad > blocks. > > Any ideas where I look? Run top in an xterm. See if OOo is sucking a lot of CPU. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+lzyS9HxQb37XmcRAirBAKCs7zJtTr5vy9rf/b55bF0e6P34xwCcDE4g qKZGDHKJ5+Qbcpy0jzXMn7k= =EC0B -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]