On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 08:39, Andrew Gray wrote: > Since installing Fedora Core 3 just after it's release and all the > subsequent released updates I am experiencing incredibly slow response > to right-clicking a incorrect spelling in OpenOffice writer. The system > hangs for approximately 3 minutes while going massively virtual then > finally returns the expected spelling suggestion. Subsequent spelling > checks in the same document work quickly but the virtual memory is not > released till OpenOffice is closed!! > What could be causing the problem with OpenOffice getting spelling > suggestion taking so long? > > Note once OpenOffice is closed system resources return to normal. If I > don't ask for spelling withing OpenOffice writer it work with minimal > resources as expected > I had this same problem. Almost made OO unusable. The solution (provided by the list here) was to comment out all languages except the ones you use in /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst. Apparently having to generate spelling lists using all languages uses tremendous amounts of resources (memory) and I suspect the system starts swapping which brings it to a crawl. -- Scot L. Harris webid@xxxxxxxxxx This fortune intentionally not included.
