Re: [Libreoffice] LibreOffice Beta 3

On 11/19/2010 04:34 PM, Kevin Hunter wrote:
> At 6:54pm -0500 Fri, 19 Nov 2010, David Burleigh wrote:
> > I am running LibreOffice Beta 3 under Ubuntu 10.10 (64-bit) and it
> > seems to gradually bog down with use, so that I have to exit and
> > restart it several times a day. It gets so that cursor movement is
> > very slow. This was also a problem with Beta 2, and I was hoping that
> > Beta 3 would fix it, but not so...
>
> Heh, this has been my experience with Calc for awhile.  I, too, would 
> like to see it "fixed".  However (and here's the annoying part) it's 
> rather difficult to track these sorts of vague issues down.  If you can 
> find a directly repeatable use case, like "save 5 files over 100KiB in 
> size, reload twice, and you can *really* notice the slow down" you would 
> be doing the devs (and yourself!) wonders.
>
> Unfortunately, because these gradual slow downs are caused by a number 
> of different pieces of the code and in small increments, there's likely 
> not a single action to say "Aha! There's the bugger."
>
> One slow down of which I've become aware is in charting with Calc. 
> Clicking in and out of a chart is a nightmare after 5 minutes of heavy 
> use.  With luck, now that there's an articulated example, someone may 
> have more luck tracking down that particular issue.

Is there something like this available for LO?
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance:Leak_Tools

I'm a standard 'user' (linux, but I also test on WinXP & Win7 (if
forced:-)), so if someone can point to debugging tools/procedures I'll
be happy to test.