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


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