Issue 17565 - Bad performance for opening files with very large tables.
Summary: Bad performance for opening files with very large tables.
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Writer
Classification: Application
Component: code (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1 RC2
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 Trivial with 2 votes (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: AOO issues mailing list
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Keywords: oooqa
: 26785 55616 95894 (view as issue list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2003-07-29 11:48 UTC by wszenajch
Modified: 2013-08-07 14:38 UTC (History)
7 users (show)

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Issue Type: DEFECT
Latest Confirmation in: ---
Developer Difficulty: ---


Attachments
Example of large table for issue 17565 (417.07 KB, application/octet-stream)
2003-07-29 11:50 UTC, wszenajch
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Description wszenajch 2003-07-29 11:48:38 UTC
File with very large table included in attachment (219 A4 Landscape pages in 
doc format crated by MS Word) is opened more than 3 minutes even when converted 
to native sxw format. Compare this to MS Word which opens this file in a few 
seconds an renumbers pages in about 10 seconds on the same machine.

Another problem: original MS Word 219 pages size is converted to 239 pages by 
OO word processor.
Comment 1 wszenajch 2003-07-29 11:50:08 UTC
Created attachment 8113 [details]
Example of large table for issue 17565
Comment 2 wszenajch 2003-07-29 11:52:11 UTC
Maybe this preformance problem is not important for home usage of OO, 
but it prevents us from introducing OpenOffice to our business.
Comment 3 tamblyne 2003-08-03 21:35:57 UTC
Confirmed -- WinXPPro/OOo 1.1rc2

ZIP file is 418 KB 
Document is 2475 KB
CPU usage 100% when opening .doc file, saving in .sxw format, and
reloading resulting .sxw file.  
Time estimates are accurate -- three to four minutes each to open .doc
file, to save in .swx format and to reload .sxw.  
OOo document contains 239 pages
Intel Celeron - 2.30Ghx - 512 MB RAM


Comment 4 wszenajch 2003-08-04 10:57:53 UTC
1. I measured performance of loading this doc document on much slower 
machine: Pentium 2 400MHz 256 MB RAM and got times in the same range 
as reported for Celeron 2.3 GHz! Maybe the problem is in 
communication between threads, sleeps or other events synchronised by 
external clock? During my tests paging space was not used at all by 
Windows 2000.

2. I tested the same file with older OpenOffice 1.0.2 included as a 
part of RedHat 9 distribution. Results are similar (slower: 6.5 
minutes for loading and displaying - swap was only lightly used by 
Pentium 2 400MHz 256 MB RAM machine, also usage of 100% of processor 
power was reported), so this performance problem is possibly OS 
independent.
Comment 5 h.ilter 2003-08-05 14:00:34 UTC
HI->CMC: It is a little bit faster when the doc is resaved with OO.
Comment 6 caolanm 2003-08-06 16:22:45 UTC
Slow alright, I have a cache to speed this up. I can try increasing
it, otherwise need to rethink table parsing.
Comment 7 caolanm 2004-03-03 13:40:19 UTC
cmc->mmaher: Performance enhancements are always welcome. Tables and slow
insertion of hard coded properties is the problem. The .sxw format is about as
slow to load...
Comment 8 jack.warchold 2004-07-14 09:43:34 UTC
*** Issue 26785 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 9 dblackia 2005-04-11 16:43:01 UTC
I almost filed a new issue, but decided to try hopping on the CC list for this
one and add another data point.  Unfortunately I cannot attach the document as
it's confidential info for the co.

This slow loading problem is getting to be a big issue for us, because it's an
important specification document that is looked at by many people and frequently
edited.  Everyone's just dealing with it for now but there are increasing
amounts of grumbling as the document grows and load times increase. 

OOo versions: 1.1.4 and 1.9.91 behave the same.  Saved as either .sxw or .odt,
same behavior too.  It contains ~20 relatively complex drawings from OOo Draw.

After I initiate an open of the file, OOo completely freezes for 75 sec.  Then
the progress bar starts to slowly make its way to the right.  After 3:37 (217
sec) the document is opened.  Until it is opened, the CPU is pegged.  Far, far
too long to wait.

OOo versions: 1.1.4 and 1.9.91 behave identically in this regard.
OSes: Windows XP pro, Linux
CPU/memory: P-III mobile 1.4-1.6 GHz, 512 MB memory (not slow processors)
Document file size: 569 Kbytes.  unzip -v shows uncompressed size of 9.3 MB.
Document properties: pages:83, tables:24, graphics:2, OLE objects:20,
paragraphs:1838, words:20209, characters:124765

The OLE objects are all from OOo Draw.  Note this document is considerably
smaller than most others for which this problem has been reported, yet takes as
long or longer to load.
Comment 10 martin_maher 2005-04-13 17:08:14 UTC
mmaher->flr: Yours I think
Comment 11 aziem 2005-10-07 23:09:34 UTC
*** Issue 55616 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 12 wszenajch 2005-12-13 10:15:01 UTC
Update for OO 2.0:

HW: Pentium 4 2.8 GHz 1 GB RAM
Opening doc attachement takes about 9:30 minutes on Windows XP SP2 and about
8:30 using Open SuSE 10.0 distro (OO compiled by SuSE). Previous OO 1.1RC2 made
this in less than 4 minutes on Pentium 2 400MHz 256MB RAM!!! I wonder what will
be the time in next main OO release.
Opening odt file created from doc attachment takes about 1:30 minutes on both
platforms (no improvement to previous result for Pentium II 400MHz and OO 1.1RC2
- Pentium 4 2.8GHz has 7 times faster clock - just mentioning only this difference).

For comparison: MS Word 2002 SP2 opens this doc in 2-3 seconds on the same platform.

Oryginal number of 219 pages in MS Word is converted by OO 2.0 to 224 pages.

This doc attachement is a part of "Integrated tariff of the European
Communities" - 25 countries now.
Comment 13 utomo99 2007-06-24 05:32:02 UTC
This old and bad performance issue already exist since 2003. 
and the comparisson is bad for OOo
9:30 minutes on OOo 
and 2-3 seconds only on microsoft Word

and this documents used by 25 countries now. 

I hope OOo fix this. 

Thanks
Comment 14 flr 2007-06-25 09:35:37 UTC
Well Andreas is doing the table refactoring --- I guess.
Comment 15 andreas.martens 2007-06-29 16:09:14 UTC
->FLR: You have analyzed this problem and you detect the root cause in our old
table model?
Comment 16 michael.ruess 2008-11-20 13:40:30 UTC
*** Issue 95894 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Comment 17 wszenajch 2008-11-20 14:20:26 UTC
Update for OO.3.0 Windows XP SP3 PL: open time for doc from attachmentid=8113 is
about 3 minutes. for Word 2002 SP3 English it is about 1-2 seconds. The hardware
is: Intel Core2 Duo T7200 2GHz, 2GB RAM.OO opens odt version about 40 seconds.
One processor core is used in 100% during open operation. The performance
improvement compared to the previous 9:30 time may come mostly from faster HW I
am afraid.
Comment 18 pbouf 2008-11-20 18:28:56 UTC
Tables don't have to be very large for noticeable slowness--see Issue 95894
attachment..