Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing speed is glacial for large file

Hi :) 
I think swap doesn't get used much these days.  Can you try 

free -m

before and during the process?  If swap is not being used even when it's in Ram then perhaps either 
stop using the ram-drive or increase swappiness?  I have 2Gb Ram but only about half that ever gets 
used and that's only when i really push the machine with games and video
Regards from 
Tom :)





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> Sent: Thursday, 11 April 2013, 1:01
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Printing speed is glacial for large file
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> On 04/10/2013 06:13 PM, David Ronis wrote:
> > I have a project managed by an odm file that ends up being ca 1600 pages
> > long and contains several OLE objects, many graphics (some comprising
> > entire pages that started out as PDFs).  I find LO unbelievably slow
> > (even on such simple things as refreshing the window after remapping
> > it).  I've turned of recording/displaying changes,  upped the graphics
> > cache numbers, set the swap directory to a ram disk, and turned off all
> > to-disk swapping; nothing helps.   This is on a 2 CPU machine with gig's
> > of ram.
> >
> > I'm currently trying  to print the project to a file (postscript
> > format).  This takes 4-6 hours, with 1 of the CPU's running at 100% [BTW
> > is LO multi-threaded?].  The resulting postscript file is big, (about
> > 350M) but not that big.
> >
> > I'm on a Slackware Linux box.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> > David
>
> Which version of LO are you using?  That might help with some answers.
>
> Have you made any modification the default settings of
> Tools>Options>LibreOffice>Memory ?
>
> I know that some people have seen some good results with the increasing of the different options 
> for the memory usage for a document.  Large ones that has a lot of object/graphics/images could 
> use more cache memoryand a larger "number of objects".  Then if you are not doing much editing, 
> the reduction of the "Undo - number of steps" could free up some needed memory and response time 
> for the document.
>
> The 1600 pages long and many graphics can slow down any system, when you are "converting" the file 
> to a postscript format.
>
> By-the-way - what are you using for the print-to-postscriptprocess?  I do not see that as a 
> "included" part of LO 4.0.2.  Are you printing it to a postscript printer but are saving it to a 
> file instead of printing out to paper?  That process would give our users some idea on the process 
> and my have some of the try some things that might find some answers.
>
> I use Ubuntu 12.04 with 2 HP printers [inkjet and laser], 1 Epson inkjet, and 1 Canon inkjet.  
> None defaults to a postscript, but the HP laser has a postscript driver.  I may install it and do 
> some testing myself.
>
> OK, I installed the foomatic-postscript driver for the laser printer.  It can print to a file.  
> But would I need it to usethe "generic postscript printer driver" to make it device independent as 
> you seem to want it to be by "printing" the file to a postscript file?
>
>
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