Open Office 3.1 is slow on my Jaunty 64 bit, but not on 32 bit

[Fred Roller]

Andrew Farris wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 09:56 +0800, The Eye In The Sky wrote:
> [snip]
>   
>> The problem I have is that on the Jaunty 64 bit, the OpenOffice is not 
>> working smoothly. Every time I open a document in Writer which has many 
>> formatting, custom fields, pictures and tables (~30 pages, 700KB), the 
>> screen crawl.
>> Let's say I drag the slider to jump from page 1 to page 10, the page 
>> movement is not smooth, but jumpy and sometimes the whole screen will be 
>> darkened during transition (I think this is a feature from Gnome telling 
>> the system is unresponsive).
>> Or if I scroll my mousewheel, the movement of the screen is late so I 
>> ends up waiting the screen to scroll into the page I want, although I 
>> already release the mousewheel.
>>     
>
> I've had a similar issue with OpenOffice.org on 64-bit...though mine
> does it with plain text docs occasionally as well. I haven't yet found a
> full resolution, but one thing you could try is increasing
> OpenOffice.org's memory allocation. 
>
> When in OpenOffice, go to "Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > Memory"
> and just ramp the allocated memory as high as you can go. I think the
> max is only 256mb, but thats better than the default 128 :)
>
> Hope that helps.
>
>   
Did not know that... thanks!  I also activated the quick start and 
bumped up the per object memory to 10.4 Mb.  I am on Jaunty_64.

Fred