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LibreOffice

Postby smoreau » May 11th, '11, 17:13

Why libreOffice is so slow on mageia ?

New text document with OpenOffice (MDV 2010.2) : 2s
New text document with LibreOfice (Mageia beta 2) : 17s

any ideas ?

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Re: LibreOffice

Postby winstonteacox » May 11th, '11, 20:09

Mageia beta2 64bit, amd x4 @2900Mhz, 4G Ram:
2 seconds with LibreOffice (3.3.2.2 -12 )
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby Sfiet_Konstantin » May 11th, '11, 21:29

Here too
smoreau, did you compared cold starting (when system is freshly boot) or warm starting (when open / libreoffice was already started one time) ?
Because oo lo have a long cold start time and a short warm start time.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby smoreau » May 11th, '11, 21:39

Sfiet_Konstantin wrote:Here too
smoreau, did you compared cold starting (when system is freshly boot) or warm starting (when open / libreoffice was already started one time) ?
Because oo lo have a long cold start time and a short warm start time.


I compare on the same machine (core 2 duo 2.4GHz) two cold starting of Openoffice (Mdv 2010.2) and LibreOffice (mageia)
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby Sfiet_Konstantin » May 12th, '11, 16:05

I wonder if oo on Mandriva does not provide a preload session when starting.
Why do not do this with LO (and I'm sure that there is an option somewhere in the LO configs to enable this).
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby isadora » May 12th, '11, 16:10

Start LibreOffice Writer->Tools->Options->Memory->Enable systray Quickstarter
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby Sfiet_Konstantin » May 12th, '11, 16:48

isadora wrote:Start LibreOffice Writer->Tools->Options->Memory->Enable systray Quickstarter

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Re: LibreOffice

Postby smoreau » May 12th, '11, 17:06

isadora wrote:Start LibreOffice Writer->Tools->Options->Memory->Enable systray Quickstarter


OK it improve largely the situation.

Thanks to all

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Re: LibreOffice

Postby smoreau » May 24th, '11, 06:42

Unsintalling kde integration make libreoffice much faster, no need to use the quick starter. I also noticed that despite the quickstarter is active for the first run of Libreoffice (with kde integration) , it is not installed in the systray and the second run is slow. On the opposite when kde integration is desactivated all is functional.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby juergen_harms » May 24th, '11, 07:25

See also a corresponding recommendation in the Mageia1 Errata
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby smoreau » May 24th, '11, 07:55

juergen_harms wrote:See also a corresponding recommendation in the Mageia1 Errata

Yes thanks, i read this, and thats why i tried this option. Apparently there are more advantages than mention in the errata page.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby ahmad » May 24th, '11, 19:23

FWIW, I couldn't reproduce this issue, i.e. there's not big difference in the launch time of libreoffice with and without the kde integration package (my point is, it shouldn't be added to the Errata unless it can be reproduced, as it maybe something specific to your installation, and not a general case).
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby wobo » May 24th, '11, 20:07

Same impression here. I tried to measure the difference with a stop watch
1. Boot Mageia, start LO writer from the start menue
2. Remove libreoffice-kde
3. Reboot Mageia, start LO writer from the start menue

There was not even 2 seconds difference.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby smoreau » May 24th, '11, 20:56

ahmad wrote:FWIW, I couldn't reproduce this issue, i.e. there's not big difference in the launch time of libreoffice with and without the kde integration package (my point is, it shouldn't be added to the Errata unless it can be reproduced, as it maybe something specific to your installation, and not a general case).

I tried to take into account your suggestion. So I used the more standard possible configuration.

Graphic card nvidia, driver nividia without desktop effects.
Window decoration iaora, oxygen-gtk rpm installed.
First situation : libreoffice kde integration installed and set (checked). Quick starter active and checked. The icon do not appear in the systray. First run of writer 2s, second run 10 s
Second situation : libreoffice kde integration withdraw. Quick starter still active. The icon is present in the systray. opening time for writer 2 s at each run. Without quick starter 10s.

I hope this could help. I wont be able to go further in the analyse, I wont be there for the next to weeks.

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Re: LibreOffice

Postby macxi » Jun 19th, '11, 16:28

Hi,

About the configuration of LibreOffice in the option: "enable systray quickstarter". Apparently, I did the tests, anb Its only is working in Mageia 1 using the GTK+ style ( selected in "System Settings" on "Style" in "Style Widgets", "GTK+")

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In IaOra-Kde style, this icon doesn't appear.

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What is important to me is not that icon to be there or not ( I do not click it). The important thing is that when it's there, I click in the normal icon of LibreOffice and it opens immediately, in half a second.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby smoreau » Mar 1st, '12, 09:16

I tried this :
http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/glo ... 14172.html
and now libreoffice open in less than 1 second.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby martinw » Mar 1st, '12, 10:52

A long time ago (when I still had a computer with a floppy drive), I found that the OpenOffice startup time was much faster when the floppy drive was disabled in the BIOS. It must do some check of available devices on startup, and if there is a slow response from any of them, that causes the long startup time some users see.

I'm still using OpenOffice 3.3.0 (LibreOffice has too many regressions for me to use it), and here it starts from cold in less than 3 seconds and from warm in about half a second, without using the systray quickstarter.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby wilcal » Mar 1st, '12, 15:22

FWIW I used Open/Star Office ( Java based ) on Solaris back
in like 02/03. You could go have lunch from launch
to a usable window.
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Re: LibreOffice

Postby martinw » Mar 1st, '12, 23:47

wilcal wrote:FWIW I used Open/Star Office ( Java based ) on Solaris back
in like 02/03. You could go have lunch from launch
to a usable window.

So did I. Even WordStar run from a floppy drive on a CPM-80 machine started quicker than that!
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