Re: Abiword cannot load *.txt file

From: Martin Sevior (msevior@seviorpc.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Mon Oct 13 2003 - 22:54:12 EDT

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    On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 09:26, Jonathan wrote:
    > Abiword 2.0
    > FreeBSD 4.8
    > compiled from ports
    > gcc-2.95.4
    > ORBit2-2.8.2
    > freetype2-2.1.5_1
    > fribidi-0.10.4_1
    > autoconf-2.53_1
    >

    I Just used AbiWord-cvs to load it. It works fine. All 740 pages get
    loaded in about 30 seconds on my dual 1.7 Ghz, 512 MegaBytes DELL
    running RH 9. It consumes 160 MegaBytes of Memory.

    AbiWord -cvs actually performs very well. Selecting/cutting/pasting text
    all feels much the same as with much smaller documents. Apart from the
    memory consumption I'm quite pleased.

    I think that if you want to use WYSIWYG Word processors on big documents
    you really need lots of memory. Otherwise, use emacs and latex :-)

    Cheers!

    Martin

    > I tried to load a 1.5 MB text file with Abiword 2.0 and it consummed almost
    > all my swap space ( used 255 Mb in one case). Here is the relevant section
    > from top:
    > ________________________
    > last pid: 19934; load averages: 2.09, 1.96, 1.88 up 0+03:31:10
    > 18:04:25
    > 74 processes: 5 running, 69 sleeping
    > CPU states: 93.3% user, 0.0% nice, 6.7% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle
    > Mem: 96M Active, 14M Inact, 37M Wired, 5888K Cache, 25M Buf, 636K Free
    > Swap: 304M Total, 94M Used, 210M Free, 30% Inuse, 64K In, 228K Out
    >
    > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND
    > 14608 fbsd 52 0 108M 61364K RUN 2:38 47.27% 47.27% AbiWord-2
    > ________________________
    > The size is 108MB. I tested this in Kde 3.1.4 and in GNOME-2.4.1. It happens
    > in both cases. Could one of the Abiword users be so kind and see if this
    > happens in Linux also?
    >
    > To reproduce:
    > 1) Go to http://www.gnu.org/manual/manual.html and download the emacs-21.2
    > manual.
    > 2) After unzipping it, load it into Abiword 2.0 from either the xterm or from
    > File->Open.
    > 3) After a few minutes Abiword will have not loaded the document. I also
    > notice that it will do it if I just copy and paste the EMACS tutorial from a
    > text editor to Abiword.
    >
    > Kind regards,
    > Jonathan
    >
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