Re: Openoffice file takes a long time to open
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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!
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