OpenOffice is really slow when saving a file

[Alan Dacey]

On Saturday, September 25, 2010 12:12:38 am Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

I only see my swap used when I'm ripping a dvd and 7zip-ing at the same time.  
I've got 8 gigs ram, E8500 cpu @ 4.1ghz and an evga motherboard from 2008.  
The gpu is a gtx 260.  It runs pretty well.  It's the only thing that's slow and that
makes the slowdown stand out.  :(

Alan