Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1701 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Mark Misulich said the following on 09/10/2009 12:18 PM:
> Pretty much any other operation, such as saving the file will also do
> the same, it causes the computer to chug and takes a long time to
> complete

Sometimes, often enough to be annoying (as in 3-5 times a week), laptop
does that.  One third the memory of yours, so that's not it.  Only
sometimes, and not reproducible to order.

However its not just OpenOfice, its any application that needs the file
selection control box.

  * attach files to a message in Thunderbird
  * save a web page in Firefox
  * save a downloaded PDF in Adobe or Foxit

This is usually accompanied by the same sluggishness with the items on
the bottom panel of my KDE4 screen.  The command menu pops up some
minutes - yes minutes - after I click on it.  The delay in the pager
makes it useless.

This seems to be associated with _some_ upgrades to KDE4.3.  It wasn't
there for KDE4.0/4.1, I'm not sure bout 4.2.

So why don't I report it as a bug.  I've no idea how to reproduce it.
Right now everything is fine.  It usually occurs after the machine has
been up for an hour, but this morning it was like that at boot.  Always
reboot cures it, sometimes for the session, sometimes for just a few hours.

Related, perhaps, is that _sometimes_ when I tab between applications
the display freezes with the 'film strip' of applications.  No action,
no response from the mouse; so it may not be KDE, it might be Xorg.

In all these cases I can ssh into the machine and the text mode stuff
works.  The reason I wonder about Xorg is that one time when it froze
and I ssh'd in and did an 'init 3', the KDE stuff didn't die off as it
would normally, and after 'kill -9' to them all, Xorg was left and it
would not respond to ANY kill signal, 1, 9, 11, 15

So I suspect your problem isn't with OpenOffice

As I say, if I had a clue as to why or how to reproduce, I report as a
bug, but past experience tells me that developers aren't happy with
vague reports like this.



> My computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 with a P4 2.66 ghz processor, and
> has 3.6 gb ram.


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