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JeroenV
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 Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 10:45 am Post subject: OO wants full system availability??? (OO & multitasking) |
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Hi,
I'm having a problem with OO:
Whenever my system is under load (i.e. compiling), OO's responsiveness drops to almost zero  That means it updates/accepts inputs once a minute or so. I experimented a bit with (re)nicing, but no real improvement there. Other apps respond fine, even under heavy load...
Ideas anyone 
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alshain
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| Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 11:12 am Post subject: |
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I just noticed the same problem - when compiling OO doesn't even update its window. I was going to try compiling OO myself to see if that makes a difference, but after seeing how much space the source takes up I rapidly changed my mind!
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JeroenV
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| Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 11:24 am Post subject: |
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I had the same idea, in fact, I once tried with 1.1G free, which wasn't enough
Does anyone know exactly how much space is needed to compile that piece of bloat?
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zhenlin
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| Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 1:02 pm Post subject: |
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# Notes:
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# This will take a HELL of a long time to compile, be warned.
# According to openoffice.org, it takes approximately 12 hours on a
# P3/600 with 256mb ram. And thats where building is its only task.
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# It takes about 6 hours on my P4 1.8 with 512mb memory, and the
# build only needs about 2.1GB of disk space - Azarah.
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# You will also need a bucketload of diskspace ... in the order of
# 4-5 gb free to store all the compiled files and installation
# directories.
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# The information on how to build and what is required comes from:
# http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/source/build_linux.html
# http://tools.openoffice.org/ext_comp.html
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# Todo:
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# Get support going for installing a custom language pack. Also
# need to be able to install more than one language pack.
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AlterEgo
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| Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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It takes almost 2.4 Gigs of tempspace to compile.
It took 11 hours @Duron 1200/512 MB (gcc 3.2 -O3)
It does feel somewhat quicker than the binary one, but don't expect miracles. |
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JeroenV
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| Posted: Fri Nov 29, 2002 1:55 pm Post subject: |
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Ah, thanks, so that's a no-go here 
Anyway, I only use that bloat for outgoing documents, I prefer LyX (wordprocessing) and Gnumeric (spreadsheet) myself.
[off-the-record]
Zhenlin, is your name related to Chinese? As in 真林 or something?
I m asking out of curiosity, but also because I have encountered several Chinese language config issues on Linux 
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zhenlin
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| I am chinese. Your choice of ideographs is incorrect. I would give you the correct ones, but I haven't bothered installing CJK input systems. If I want to use CJK, I use Mac OS X. |
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JeroenV
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[offtopic]
If you would need Chinese on Gentoo one day: the easiest to do is probably xsim (IME) and the Arphic fonts (they are in the portage tree). I got that working quite easily. (and then launch your apps with appropriate environment set)
ZWinPro (Chinput) seems more feature-rich, though last time I installed it (on SuSE) it took too much hacking to get going 
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Anyway, I'm testing now whether the linux-2.5.50 scheduling capabilities make a difference in OO behaviour, I'll post the result...
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