I'm having some pretty severe performance problems with OpenOffice Calc.
Here's the environment:
Intel 2.67 GHz P4 (yes it's underpowered, but see below) NVidia 7600 GS over-clocked with 260.19.36 binary driver 1.5 GB memory Fedora 14 latest patches
The applications:
OpenOffice Calc 3.3.0-20.2 Gnumeric 1.10.12-1 KSpread 2.2.2-4 Sun JRE 1.6.0_22 (instead of 1.6.0_23 to work around tmpdir bug)
The plot:
Size: 8700 points Plot: XY scatter, points and lines, no smoothing
The problem:
Increasing the horizontal size of the graph takes approximately 10 minutes. During this time the CPU is at 100% and the mouse cursor remains as a double-headed arrow, preventing interaction with the rest of the desktop. This occurs regardless of windowing system (KDE, Gnome, WindowManager).
Decreasing the horizontal size works reasonably well (about 10 seconds).
A bit more detail:
Fedora 14 OO 3 / JRE 1.6.0_22 vertical increase size - 10 seconds horizontal increase size - 600 seconds gnumeric vertical increase size - 2 seconds horizontal increase size - 6 seconds kspread segmentation fault creating graph
XP/Professional (same hardware) 00 3 / JRE 1.6.0_23 vertical increase size - 5 seconds horizontal increase size - 30 seconds Excel 2000 vertical increase size - 1 second horizontal increase size - 2 seconds
Are other people experiencing similar relative performance issues? If this is not an artifact, where should it be reported?
Yes, I can use some Perl scripts and gnuplot as workarounds.
. . . . just my two cents /mde/