OpenOffice 2.2 too good to be true

[NoOp]

On 03/09/2007 11:33 AM, NoOp wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Update: on the same 300Mhz machine booting into Dapper (2.6.15-28-386)
fully updated on the second drive and running the Ubuntu'ized version of
OOo 2.0.2 - this version is *expired* by OOo BTW yet is the most
up-to-date in the Dapper repositories (again, simply opening up just a
OOo (Ubuntu'ized) Writer start/blank document and with nothing else
running) I get the following:

CPU: 14% (avg)
User memory: 103.3 MB of 281.7 MB 36.6%
User swap: 0 MB of 203.9 MiB 0.0%

OOo works as expected w/no noticable delays.

When I get time the next test will be 2.1 OOo on this machine under both
Dapper & Feisty.  I suppose that this sort of info should really be
going to whoever is Ubuntu'izing OOo on Feisty... can anyone point me in
the right direction?