[fedora-java] OOo Performance?

[Andrew Haley]

Andrew Haley writes:
 > Mark Wielaard writes:
 >  > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 20:44 +0000, Caolan McNamara wrote:
 >  > > On Wed, 2006-03-15 at 13:06 -0500, Andrew Overholt wrote:
 >  > > > Is this true:
 >  > > > 
 >  > > >  "In OpenOffice.org, for instance, Java-based features such as the basic
 >  > > >  document wizards open so slowly that you may conclude that the program has
 >  > > >  frozen before anything happens."
 >  > > > 
 >  > > > ?
 >  > > > 
 >  > > > http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/03/08/2321254
 > 
 > I wonder what sort of machine he was using.
 > 
 >  > > 
 >  > > To test this wizard start-up time: File->wizards->letter.
 >  > 
 >  > The first time you use an wizard is indeed pretty slow, it sits there
 >  > eating up 100% CPU for a couple of seconds (at least on my
 >  > Debian/unstable box, I cannot get ooffice from FC5/rawhide to work
 >  > unfortunately. It seems stuck in the splash screen according to gdb
 >  > somewhere in reading the font cache). But after that using the wizards
 >  > works just fine.
 >  > 
 >  > What was the magic oprofile incantation again to get a useful report
 >  > about what is happening on the system?
 > 
 > Here you are:

Subsequent runs look like this, with libgcj only consuming 14% of CPU time:

samples  cum. samples  %        cum. %     image name               app name                 symbol name
9119     9119          22.7582  22.7582    no-vmlinux               no-vmlinux               (no symbols)
5738     14857         14.3203  37.0785    libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3 (no symbols)
4196     19053         10.4719  47.5505    libuno_sal.so.3          libuno_sal.so.3          (no symbols)
1450     20503          3.6188  51.1692    libtk680li.so            libtk680li.so            (no symbols)
1115     21618          2.7827  53.9519    libuno_cppu.so.3         libuno_cppu.so.3         (no symbols)
903      22521          2.2536  56.2055    libgcj.so.7.0.0          libgcj.so.7.0.0          GC_mark_from
899      23420          2.2436  58.4492    libpthread-2.3.90.so     libpthread-2.3.90.so     pthread_mutex_lock
867      24287          2.1638  60.6129    libvcl680li.so           libvcl680li.so           (no symbols)
822      25109          2.0515  62.6644    libgcj.so.7.0.0          libgcj.so.7.0.0          _Jv_InterpMethod::run(void*, ffi_raw*, _Jv_InterpMethod*)
798      25907          1.9916  64.6560    libpthread-2.3.90.so     libpthread-2.3.90.so     pthread_mutex_unlock
556      26463          1.3876  66.0436    libsw680li.so            libsw680li.so            (no symbols)
518      26981          1.2928  67.3363    libcrypto.so.0.9.8a      libcrypto.so.0.9.8a      (no symbols)
381      27362          0.9509  68.2872    libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060304.so.1 libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060304.so.1 _Unwind_IteratePhdrCallback
355      27717          0.8860  69.1732    libtl680li.so            libtl680li.so            (no symbols)
340      28057          0.8485  70.0217    libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060304.so.1 libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060304.so.1 execute_cfa_program
330      28387          0.8236  70.8453    libc-2.3.90.so           libc-2.3.90.so           memcpy

  samples|      %|
------------------
     9119 22.7582 no-vmlinux
     5738 14.3203 libuno_cppuhelpergcc3.so.3
     5683 14.1830 libgcj.so.7.0.0
     4196 10.4719 libuno_sal.so.3
     1897  4.7343 libpthread-2.3.90.so
     1762  4.3974 libc-2.3.90.so
     1475  3.6812 libgcc_s-4.1.0-20060304.so.1

Andrew.