OpenOffice is really slow when saving a file

[Gene Heskett]

On Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:04:51 am Alan Dacey did opine:

> Does anybody else have a problem with OpenOffice where it takes a couple
> of seconds for it to do anything after each mouse click when saving a
> file?  When I save a file in Writer the save dialog comes up but is not
> entirely drawn for a few moments.  Then when I change to a folder
> another few seconds.  Then when I click on a file with a similar name
> to what I want, another few seconds.  Using KDE 4.5.1 on Kubuntu 10.04
> and OpenOffice 3.2 from the repros.
> I also am using the latest Nvidia driver from Nvidia, 256.53, and all
> the eye candy Kwin has to offer.  It still happens when I turn it off
> so that is not the problem.
> 
> Alan

You didn't say what your hardware was, but those are classic symptoms of 
running from virtual memory, aka swap.  I just installed 10.04 LTS on my 
milling machine, which only has half a gig of ram, and if it sits 
overnight, it will take several minutes to launch emc the next morning, but 
once its running, everything is fine.  The old install of 6.06LTS, had no 
such problems ever.

top or htop, which I like better, can show you if your are using swap 
memory.

I just logged in and checked that machine, and it is 138 megs into swap 
right now.  Ridiculous.

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