Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 9797
Screen Scrolling poor
Last modified: 2003-11-20 10:52:34 UTC
Hi OO 643c is extremely poor at scrolling through long documents and spreadsheets. The more pages a document contains, the slower it goes. Also (same issue) when I dictate into it via Dragon 4, my dictation is appearing 1 letter at a time, rather than complete words. It still ends up OK, but I am waiting ages to check that I have been properly recognised. OO 1.0.1 flies in that respect.
Ian, thank you for using and supporting OOo. Considering this is a developer build, performance in the latest release may not have been a priority. That said, it is good to hear from users about the performance of OOo on their machine. At your convenience and interest: 1. Could you please list your hardware specifications: CPU ( type, speed ) Memory 2. Provide us with some metrics: Time to load. Scroll times. Anything else of interest. Ideally, we need a set of metrics for OOo 1.0.1 and OOo 643C for comparison. Also try adjusting the memory settings in Tools->Options->Memory
Using file from 9684: PIII, 256MB ram RH 8.0, OOo 643, Stock memory settings ~3 minutes to load file Scrolling ( smooth scrolling off ) is jerky when OOo is loading doc from cache/HD RH 8.0, OOo 1.0.1, Stock memory settings ~2 minutes 30 seconds to load file Scrolling ( smooth scrolling off ) is fairly smooth, with minor jerks when OOo is loading doc from cache/HD
> Ian, thank you for using and supporting OOo. > > Considering this is a developer build, performance in the latest release may not have been a priority. Understood. > That said, it is good to hear from users about the performance of OOo on their machine. > > At your convenience and interest: > > 1. Could you please list your hardware specifications: > CPU ( type, speed ) Laptop with AMD Duron 700 Processor. ATi Mobility Pro 4Mb Graphics Card > Memory 256 Mb. > > 2. Provide us with some metrics: > Time to load. With Quickstarter running and templates opened from Quick Launch toolbar: Text 1 - 32 Seconds Text 2 - 3 seconds Spreadsheet 1 - 12 seconds Spreadsheet 2 - 3 seconds Application closed (but quickstarter not closed) between execution of each task (in above order). Where spreadsheet is the first document launched, takes about the same as the first text document. OO1.0.1 Comparison. Quickstarter not running. Documents launched from start\programs menu. New Text 1 - 22 secs New Text 2 - 2 secs New spreadsheet 1 - 8 secs Spreadsheet 2 - 2 secs In broad terms it would appear that 643c takes 50% longer to load than 1.0.1. > Scroll times. 1 page document - No noticeable lag when scrolling but when dictating very noticeable. On a 24 page document there can be a delay of up to 10 seconds before there is any noticeable movement from 1 page to another. The hour glass is visible whilst this is going on. Memory settings: Cache - 20 Mb Per Object - 4 Mb > Anything else of interest. > > Ideally, we need a set of metrics for OOo 1.0.1 and OOo 643C for comparison. > Also try adjusting the memory settings in > Tools->Options->Memory Set to above figures. Also increased the Windows disk cache. No difference. Neither does reducing colour settings on the graphics card. Hope you don't mind me sending the attached. It's a doc I took from the Sun Support Forum. It was originally in .doc format. Trying to open it in 643c crashed the application. It opened OK in both SO5.2 and OO1.0.1, whence I saved in .sxw format. If you open this in OO1.0.1 and then in 643c, you will immediately spot the difference. Hope this helps Ian
Created attachment 3909 [details] Document as described in the narrative
Please try using the latest OOo 1.1 Rc5, Your version already old enough, and many bug fixes since your version and 1.1 RC5. If the problem still happend in 1.1 RC5 please report back
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