SLOW!!

[williepitt]

I have downloaded NeoOffice twice to my iMac G4 (OS 10.4.11). Both times, it has been so slow I couldn't use it. Glacial is the word. It would come in a poor third in a race with a snail and a tortoise.

In fact, it was so slow that I couldn't make even the first move toward opening a new word processor file. Both times, I trashed NeoOffice in utter disgust.

Is there something I can fix to make it work?

[narf]

One place to check is our NeoWiki article on Troubleshotting Tips. But before you make your way through the Performance section in that article I have a question for you.

How much memory do you have in you iMac? You can check this by selecting the Apple menu in the upper left-hand corner and selecting About This Mac.

--fran

[williepitt]

Memory? 768 MB.

[Markk]

[narf]

Yes, the memory in your machine should be sufficient.

One possible cause for NeoOffice running slowly is that other applications on your system are hogging the CPU or memory. To test this theory I recommend that you open the /Applications/Utilities/Activity Monitor application and see which applications other than NeoOffice are using more than 1% of CPU. Use the Activity Monitor window pick list to change the selection from the default "My Processes" to "All Processes" so you can view all processes running. Click on the CPU column to order the processes from smallest to largest to make it easier to see what is hogging the CPU.

If there are any such applications, does NeoOffice's speed improve when you quit those other CPU-hogging applications?

--fran

[netocp-1]

I have an iBook G4 with a PowerPC processor and with 1.50 GB of memory, and I can say that NeoOffice 3.0 is a little slow, and in comparison with NeoOffice 2.2.5, 3.0 is slower than 2.2.5. Why does it happen? or Why NeoOffice 3.0 is slower now?

[pluby]

[sardisson]

Patrick also had to spend a considerable amount of time trying to make the changes to the OOo code not make Neo 3 unusably slow on PPC. I gather that he has succeeded, but still at the expense of a performance hit to some degree. (I personally find Neo 3 trememdously faster than Neo 2.2.5 on Intel; I can actually use it for spreadsheets that are a couple of screens in size now.)

Smokey

[gromOSX]

whew, getting married in 2 weeks and have been away from the forum for a bit! I run neo on a 10.5 ibook g4 with 1.2gb RAM and I have found some great settings to tweak. If load times are a problem this wont help you but speed in the program should improve.

go to Neo preferences and under the memory tab make the following changes
Undo
number of steps=30
graphics cache
use for neooffice=128
memory per object=20
cache for inserted objects
number of objects=20


hope that helps

[sardisson]

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[pieggi]

I second the slowness, but I started noticing it today, when I kept open 2 Writer documents for 19 hrs (no graphics, just text and tables). I tried to close one of the two documents, but it's still slow (between the click on the menu and its appearance there is a 5-10 seconds delay). I looked at the memory usage and is 270MB phisical memory, 970MB virtual memory.
Not to say the cpu use of Neo, on average constantly above 70% (that's why I'm posting from my windows machine).
Therefore my guess is that there's some memory leak or the GC in OOo doesn't work well: if I open a document, work on it for an hour or so and close Neo the suite is reasonably fast (considering the processing power I have).

i have a 1.33Ghz G4 with a 1GB of RAM, that is quickly eaten up by Neo and contended by the other apps open (Thunderbird, Adium and Skype).

[pluby]