Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open
Hi there Try to modified it and save it on SUSE machine. Then copy the file back to etch laptop. On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 11:15 +0100, 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. It is not big. ls-l reports its size as 18,000. I have many much bigger files which open immediately. I copied the file to SUSE linux that I have on a desktop, and the file opened quickly. 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? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openoffice file takes a long time to open
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. It is not big. ls-l reports its size as 18,000. I have many much bigger files which open immediately. I copied the file to SUSE linux that I have on a desktop, and the file opened quickly. 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? John
Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open
-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]
Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open
On 09/26/2007 09:21 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: 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. Also check your disk i/o for swapping. I recently worked on a 4.8kb OOo document that sucked in 8 images of 1.1Mb/each. It was a simple letter sized page with embedded images. Working on that doc brought the old 500Mhz PIII to a crawl under etch, but it loaded and rendered in a minute or 2, not 25 mins! Also, check whether any other unusual objects are embedded or called somehow. Perhaps some object is not loading, re-trying, and finally timing out. Just a guess... Good luck, Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openoffice file takes a long time to open
On 9/26/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. It is a file that is frequently used. I don't know how to check if it is in zlib. 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. The desktop is 2.8Ghz and has 1MB memory. The laptop is 1.8GHz and has the same memory. There is no difference between these two machines in opening any other file. Any ideas where I look? Run top in an xterm. See if OOo is sucking a lot of CPU. It is, but only on opening this file. John
Openoffice file takes a long time to open
On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check your disk i/o for swapping. How do I do that? Also, check whether any other unusual objects are embedded or called somehow. Perhaps some object is not loading, re-trying, and finally timing out. Just a guess... That is what has me baffled - there are no images or anything else in the file. It has some email addresses - maybe openoffice is trying to open an email application for each of these. John
Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open
On 09/26/2007 11:02 AM, John O Laoi wrote: On 9/26/07, *Ralph Katz* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also check your disk i/o for swapping. How do I do that? Little ole me looks at the disk light. :) Also, I have gkrellm installed which can show graphically the disk usage. (There is also the systat package which I just found searching for - monitor OR watch disk i/o - iostat - search debian pkgs page for this command.) And of course top and free commands show swap space used/available. Also, check whether any other unusual objects are embedded or called somehow. Perhaps some object is not loading, re-trying, and finally timing out. Just a guess... That is what has me baffled - there are no images or anything else in the file. It has some email addresses - maybe openoffice is trying to open an email application for each of these. John Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only editor, re-copy the now text-only data into a new OOo doc. (This is crude, but assures nothing surprising gets inadvertently copied.) Now, try the new doc. Good luck! Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Openoffice file takes a long time to open
On 9/26/07, Ralph Katz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only editor, re-copy the now text-only data into a new OOo doc. (This is crude, but assures nothing surprising gets inadvertently copied.) Now, try the new doc. I tried this to no avail. Then, I brought the file to SUSE, and did the same thing there, using vi, saved it as text and brought it back to Etch, and it opened in less than a second. All very mysterious. Anyway, problem solved in the end. Thanks for your help. John
Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open
Ralph wrote: Don't know, John, I'm just a simple user. If it were me, I'd copy the contents of the doc onto the clipboard, paste it into a text-only Well, I remember doing something similar at a previous job. I was doing quite a bit of Excel spreadsheets there, and over time this spreadsheet I was using got a bit on the complex side, and would bring the workstation I was using to its knees, with disk I/O going on constantly. (The machine just was too underpowered, only had a 128 meg of RAM etc.) What I ended up doing was to get a copy of staroffice (this was back in 2000) then copy the spreadsheet over to that, and then reload it into Excel. That helped quite a bit, since I apparently had quite a number of otherwise unused cell areas that still got moved in and out of system RAM while I was working on the main sheet. Ralph -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
