Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 24907
Increased slowness when starting OO and opening or printing documents
Last modified: 2004-01-30 22:22:05 UTC
I have been experiencing a problem with OpenOffice where the more it is used by a given user, the slower it performs for that user. The slowness is not related to the function selected (e.g., writer, calc, etc.), but I do use the writer the most. For example, I use OpenOffice frequently under my personal account. Over the months since I have installed OpenOffice, I have noticed that it takes longer and longer both to start the program and to load, save, and print documents. This morning I experimented by logging into a different account on the same machine. I almost never use OpenOffice under this other account. When I started OpenOffice, it came up very quickly (1-2 seconds). Next I loaded a document, and it also took only a second or two. I then exited OpenOffice and copied the document that I had just opened to my primary account. I logged back into my primary account, started OpenOffice and loaded the document. OpenOffice took a while to load (~20 seconds), and the document took 45 seconds to load. I believe this problem may be similar to issue #23385. Here are some details about my setup. I am running Redhat Linux 9 with kernel version 2.4.20-28.9. To verify that I am running the latest build of OpenOffice (1.1), yesterday I downloaded the tarball from the OpenOffice.org site and compared it to the file that I have in my library, which I used to install OpenOffice on my machine. OpenOffice is installed in /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0 so that each of the users on my system can run OpenOffice after they run the setup that places the small number of files in their home directory (~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0). Here are some details about my hardware setup: Processor: AMD Athlon XP 2400+ Physical memory: 1 gig Free hard disk space (primary drive): 73 gig If more information would be helpful, I'm pretty good with Linux, so I should be able to get whatever is needed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I think it's a duplicate of issue 20287 Please check whether your pspfontcache file is very large. If this is the case you can either remove the file and recreate it read-only or you can have it deleted on a regular basis as a workaround. (see issue 20287 for more details) Please comment whether this is the case.
Yes, that seems to have done the trick. To solve the problem for myself and other users on my system, I placed the command rm ~/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/user/psprint/pspfontcache as the first command in the /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.0/program/soffice script. Will the issue with the pspfontcache file be resolved in a future release? Thanks for your help!!! *** This issue has been marked as a duplicate of 20287 ***
The issue will be solved in the next release (see the target-milestone field of issue 20287 for the version that the fix is meant to go in... (in this case OOo 1.1.1) Thank you for confirming it duplicate. -> closing.