Open Office maybe I have a Solution

[otto_oz]

Ever since 11.3 Open Office was performing "badly" to say the least. It loaded slow, with a few documents open "save-as" and selecting a different folder took up to a minute...and so on....

Anyway I had the suspicion that there maybe not enough memory allocated. Nothing within the OO settings worked.

Then I looked into yast=>/etc/sysconfig=>System=>Limits...
found "HARDLOCKLIMIT" set to "@256"
changed to "@512"......OK finished.

Ran a test with 10 documents open

a) startup was much faster
b) saveas instantly
c) pdf instantly
d) selecting new folder instantly

Preliminary conclusion : Java(sun) and OO needs more memory

Please comment.

Cheers Otto

[ah7013]

Is there any downside of doing this?

Thanks

[otto_oz]

Sofar no downside, early days.
I increased the value to"@1024
Upside everything else loads much faster. Did just another test with "Gimp" open, opened 12 documents in OO ...the speed increase is phenominal.

Maybe the default limitation also explained a number of "screen freezes" which I attributed to running KDE 4.5.1 RC. I was always wondering that with 8GB Ram the system should run faster.

I'll keep you posted

[ah7013]

I also have 8gb ram so maybe I should try this.

Thanks for posting this how to

[john_hudson]

I achieved a comparable result by getting rid of the KDE dialogues - so the hypothesis of a memory problem sounds reasonable.

[Will Honea]

john hudson wrote:

>
> I achieved a comparable result by getting rid of the KDE dialogues - so
> the hypothesis of a memory problem sounds reasonable.

I switched to the oo native file dialog (in oo setup) and saw a substantial
improvement in response time as well.

--
Will Honea

[vodoo]

Something is odd here. The default value for HARDLOCKLIMIT in /etc/sysconfig/ulimit is 5% of the total memory. This would translate to @197000 as an absolute value for my system, starting with the total available memory as reported by top for my system (4GB RAM).

top - 12:40:18 up 14 min,  5 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.04, 0.07
Tasks: 183 total,   2 running, 181 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  0.3%us,  0.6%sy,  0.0%ni, 99.0%id,  0.0%wa,  0.1%hi,  0.0%si,  0.0%st
Mem:   3940008k total,   901400k used,  3038608k free,    47332k buffers
Swap:  5141196k total,        0k used,  5141196k free,   597336k cached

Is there someone having some insight how it works and what would be the optimum value?

[orrinsam]

Adjusting the HARDLOCKLIMIT did not improve the situation in my 1G memory system, but clearing the clipboard (Klipper) works untill the clipboard fills up again.

[keellambert]

Thanks for sharing.

I have a 2MB & 4MB machines. Setting HARDLOCKLIMIT to 25 (%) has improved times when saving into different directories.

Boxes seen more responsive and no negative effects noticed.

Since updating to openSUSE11.3, memory usage does not exceed ~450KB unless a crash is imminent.

Thanks again.

[wrbbt]

Ever since 11.3 Open Office was performing "badly" to say the least. It loaded slow, with a few documents open "save-as" and selecting a different folder took up to a minute...and so on....

Anyway I had the suspicion that there maybe not enough memory allocated. Nothing within the OO settings worked.

Then I looked into yast=>/etc/sysconfig=>System=>Limits...
found "HARDLOCKLIMIT" set to "@256"
changed to "@512"......OK finished.

Great! Thanks. I was looking for something like this.
In my case, startup was fine, quite fast. But I experienced the terrible slowness in saveas dialogs you say. I've done what you did (in my case HARDLOCKLIMIT was set to @256 too). I have to test it more, but for now I'm not experiencing that boring slowness and also startup seems quite faster.
Thanks again for posting this how to.