On Wed, 27 Dec 2017 08:21:28 -0800 Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Rory-- > Can any of the files you're working with be deposited in some publicly > accessible location for others to test? Especially the older OO test files? > > -------- > MzK Kay, If you send me off-list a postal address, I'll send you (and others interested who do likewise) a CD/DVD with a selection of the files. All told they amount to about 500MB. Rory > On Dec 24, 2017 09:23, "Rory O'Farrell" <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > > > I have some large files made with OO 2.x and 3.x; one I currently have in > > front of me is the complete works of Jane Austen, which I built out of the > > individual files some time ago - as this is all public domain, I can share > > it. This file on OO4 is about 1.7 MB, 800k words, 4 million chars, 3200 A5 > > pages. > > > > It flies in LibreOffice 5.1.6.2 on an Xubuntu 16.04.03 system (2 x 4788 > > Bogomips), 4 GB ram, SATA hard disk. On my main machine. using OO 4.1.5 > > RC1), but also on earlier OO 4.1.x versions, on Xubuntu 16.04.03 (4 x 6185 > > Bogomips) 8 GB ram, SSD disk drive [a machine with 4 cores, each core about > > 130% faster than the lesser powered machine] it is glacial. > > > > I asked OO to add an extra heading level into the ToC - memory twitching > > about 570 MB, one core completely engaged, no response after 60 minutes > > I'll leave it run to see if it completes. The LibreOffice machine is using > > 525 MB ram, and no core when not updating the ToC. It did the Index rebuild > > in about 12 seconds. Page count is dramatically different - LO ~2400 A5 > > pages, OO ~3200 A5 pages) (fonts are identical on both machines). I'm not > > at present worrying about that - I'll try a small file (300 pages) and see > > how that matches across suites. > > > > I have also noted that some very large sample files (made to examine page > > number limitations some years ago) won't open on current OO versions - the > > files that will open are the smaller ones (~55K pages not ~120K pages). > > > > I'm thinking (purely because I can't be stopped) that OO is each time > > reverting to the start of the file when doing layout (as Alt Search and > > Replace does), whereas LO does layout in one stream from the beginning. The > > hard disks don't come into the problem, as Swap files have not been touched. > > > > > > -- > > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > > > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
