AG wrote: > I suppose another issue is the length of time it takes to autosave: with > 3Gb of RAM and a further 3Gb allocated to my swap partition, one would > think that there'd be plenty of memory for OOo to use in the save > process. Perhaps there is a way of manually allocating further memory > to OOo specifically so it can do that administrative function more in > the background? Again, it is a PITA when busy typing away and > everything has to stop for the OOo to save. Is that why MS Word tends > to create all of these background files (*.tmp) so that it can more > effectively do a background save?
As part of our performance improvement work we have implemented a prototype that saves Writer documents in the background. The document being saved is copied in memory and then a background thread is started to save this copy. In the meantime, the user can continue his work, even on the document now being saved (as in fact a copy of it is saved, so changes on the "original" don't interact with this process). It works quite well, at least if you don't do anything special in the foreground. But ironing out the last bugs will take quite some time, so it won't get into 3.2, but it's in the works. It should be clear that a function like this should be implemented as stable as possible. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "nospamfor...@gmx.de". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
