OpenOffice 2.2 too good to be true

[NoOp]

On 03/09/2007 10:25 AM, Gabriel Dragffy wrote:
> NoOp wrote:

>> 
>> And very, very slow. I even adjusted the memory settings to match those
>> of my 2.1 (OOo official version) and that helped only slightly. I have
>> two identical systems side-by-side; one running dapper & OOo 2.1 (not
>> the Ubuntu version) and the other running Feisty OOo 2.2 (Ubuntu)
>> version. Before the change to 2.2 the 2.1 (Ubuntu) version pretty much
>> matched the dapper 2.1 version... not any more. I get instant response
>> from the 2.1 version, but the 2.2 version looks like it's painting the
>> screen by hand. Have you noticed any difference on your system?
>> 
>> All other applications on Feisty seem to run just fine.
>> 
>> Disclaimer: my systems that I am testing are very old & slow to begin
>> with. Both are 300Mhz PII 256Mb, but a good test to see what runs on old
>> systems.
>> 
>> 
> 
> I noticed no difference in the performance on Feisty. Did notice that 
> the .doc (word xp) import filters have vastly improved in OOo 2.2 though.
> Just for info, I am running Feisty in Parallels on a MBP, core2duo 
> 2.something ghz with 2gb ram, but I have allocated only 300mb of memory 
> (ram) to the Feisty VM, and it runs really sweet with that.
> 
> 

I've been testing on this old beast to see how things run on older
hardware. The other 300Mhz just bit the dust (H/W related, nothing to do
with Ubuntu), so I can't compare exactly any longer. However:

Feisty OOo 2.2 (Ubuntu'ized) opened w/Writer & nothing else open is
sucking down on average 40% of the CPU:

CPU: 40% (avg)
User memory: 126.0 MB of 281.7 MB 44.7%
User swap: 1.4 MB of 308.0 MB 0.5%

On my other old machine (450Mhz 256Mb) running Dapper OOo (official) 2.1
and the same -- only OOo open w/Writer, I get:

CPU: 8.9% (avg)
User memory: 103.4 MB of 250.3 41.3%
Used swap: 41.6 MB of 748.0 5.6%

The above figures are from the standard Ubuntu included System Monitor
application.

I'll load the offical OOo 2.1 on the Feisty machine later and run the
same test to see what the CPU loads are using that. If I get ambitious
I'll then may try the offical 2.2 RC and see if there is any difference
between the Ubuntu'ized version and the offical version.