On Saturday 16 August 2008, NoOp wrote: > On 08/16/2008 02:47 AM, bill purvis wrote: > > On Friday 15 August 2008, Cor Nouws wrote: > >> Hi Bill, > >> ... > >> Makes me curious. > >> - Can you pls write which specs for your PC, OS, version OOo? > >> - And can you send me the presentation (off list) so that I can do some > >> testing? > >> - Also: this issue http://qa.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85029 > >> holds some (quite technical) info that might be relevant for you. > > > > Cor, > > I think the problem may be elsewhere. I closed down the Impress file > > and opened a Calc file. The CPU usage continued to be high: 50-99%. > > Eventually it dawned on me that it might be something else going on > > so I shut down soffice altogether, then restarted it with the Calc > > file. No problem, a quick burst of CPU as it opened and displayed > > then drop off to near zero. I then re-opened the Impress file and > > CPU still seems to be low. Response in a slide-show seems quite > > reasonable. Maybe there was something else going on? > > > > Afterthought - I do remember clicking on the pop-up that said a > > new version of Open Office was available, but nothing happened. > > Could that have started some thread that gobbled the CPU and slowed > > down the Impress responses? > > > > Bill > > Next time it happens open a terminal window and enter: > > top -d12 > > That will show you what is eating your cpu. The '-d12' just slows down > the polling rate so that you can actually see what is going on in the > event that processes are switching rapidly. > I used top to check and that's where I found that soffice.bin was gobbling away. I've convinced myself that it's the 'download new release' bit that's doing it. Tried clicking it again and started to download then clicked cancel (as I only update using .deb format from the website) and once again it went into gobbling mode. I know now to avoid that! At least until it gets fixed :-)
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