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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
