On Sat, 2012-05-26 at 12:53 +0200, Andreas Säger wrote: > Am 26.05.2012 00:47, Girvin R. Herr wrote: > > > > As an update to my problem with Report Builder, my 1500+ record database > > takes 94 pages of a Report Builder / Writer document. I put on my > > patience hat and timed how long it takes to format the report, ready for > > printing. As a baseline, it takes about 49 minutes to create the > > original document. I cleared my preferences and re-entered them, using > > mostly defaults and timed it again: 49 minutes. So it is not preference > > corruption from previous versions. I then updated my java to 1.6u30 and > > timed it again: 49 minutes. So, it doesn't look like Java is the > > problem. I then went back to my original use of SQL from when I created > > the report with the wizard, rather than using a query for the data and > > timed it: 49 minutes! No matter what I do, it takes about the same > > excruciatingly long time to build my report. What is really frustrating > > is that there is no status popup to inform me of what it is doing. It > > just goes out to lunch. Actually, it seems to initially create 128 pages > > with header and footer, but no data, at the end of the first "sleep". > > When the page status at the bottom of the writer window drops to 94 > > pages, I know it is done. Every so many pages, it does come back alive > > for a second or two and then goes out to lunch again for several > > minutes. Each time it returns, a few more pages are populated with data. > > Girvin > > > > > > Every time when there is a performance problem with this office suite, > Tom blames Java. It has to be Java just because Java is evil. > > Now this may be related to the one and only Java related performance > problem and Tom does not even notice. > > You are running the combination of Linux, Base plus JDBC?
Ah I missed that last bit - yup, those JDBC connections can suck - has the OP tried ODBC? //drew > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
