> On Dec 29, 2024, at 5:17 PM, Aivaras Stepukonis <astepuko...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> - Another "regression" (Bugzilla seems to be down?) which is Windows-only,
>> and has a known but ugly workaround - we leak the library handle like we
>> did before (and still do on 4.1.x), instead of releasing it properly.
> This one, if I read it correctly, I can confirm. It is rather bad. As soon as
> files get bigger, OO slows down and begins to crash. OO cannot be used
> reliably. Happens to me all the time in Writer, Calc, and Draw, using the
> following machine:
>
> Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-14700T 1.30 GHz
> Installed RAM 32,0 GB (31,7 GB usable)
> Windows 11 Pro
Something to consider in reading a Microsoft Office binary file - they began
extending their binary file formats to include embedded OOXML fragments 15
years ago. I recall having files grow unexpectedly large in memory. I’m not
sure if this pertains to OpenOffice, but it could point to one area to trace in
some way.
Best,
Dave
>
> --
> Pagarbiai / Sincerely,
> 📧 Aivaras Stepukonis <mailto:astepuko...@gmail.com>
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> 2024-12-30 03:07, Damjan Jovanovic rašė:
>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 9:12 PM Arrigo Marchiori<ard...@apache.org> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 29, 2024 at 10:01:56AM +0000, Peter kovacs wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all.
>>>>
>>>> So let's discuss blockers of 4.2.0.
>>>>
>>>> I am only aware of translations 4.2.0 as a real blocker.
>>> There is a nasty, repeatable crash of Impress under Windows.
>>>
>>> I tried to look into it some time ago but I failed, due to my lack of
>>> knowledge of Windows debugging tools.
>>>
>>> I don't remember the exact steps to reproduce the crash, but they were
>>> trivial, like creating a new presentation with two slides, saving it
>>> and closing it.
>>>
>>> The Linux build are much more stable, in fact.
>>>
>>> IIRC Damjan got AOO42X Impress crash under FreeBSD as well...?
>>>
>> Those PPT file crashes? There were 2 I know of:
>> - #128579 - a cross-platform regression that got fixed on 3 Jan 2024 in
>> commit 294ee1400602b0a60dabfaa12034b85c1df06f8f.
>> - Another "regression" (Bugzilla seems to be down?) which is Windows-only,
>> and has a known but ugly workaround - we leak the library handle like we
>> did before (and still do on 4.1.x), instead of releasing it properly.
>>
>> I'll try to investigate that Windows PPT crash further soon.
>>
>> I am also in need of better Windows debugging tools.
>>
>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> --
>>> Arrigo
>>>
>>>
>> Regards
>> Damjan
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