Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1308700
Scrolling in libreoffice writer is really slow and makes Xorg take up a lot of CPU
Last modified: 2016-12-20 13:45:10 EST
Created attachment 1127418 [details] Screenshot when only scrolling the document with top showing Xorg at 99,7% Description of problem: I'm scrolling document with 40 pages in libreoffice, and it scrolls very slowly and I can notice with top that the Xorg process is running at 80%-100% CPU, while the soffice.bin process is using at most 4% CPU. As soon as I stop scrolling, the CPU usage of Xorg drops to 0%-1%. This behavior is not image-dependent, because it happens with text-only pages and with tables too. I'm using a very fast machine with a very fast GPU, so this slowness is really unexpected. The workstation configuration: 6-core Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 @ 2.50GHz 16GB RAM with 11GB free NVIDIA Corporation GK107GL [Quadro K2000] (rev a1), performs glxgears@33000fps -direct rendering: Yes -server glx vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation -server glx version string: 1.4 -OpenGL vendor string: NVIDIA Corporation -OpenGL renderer string: Quadro K2000/PCIe/SSE2 -OpenGL core profile version string: 4.4.0 NVIDIA 358.16 -OpenGL core profile shading language version string: 4.40 NVIDIA via Cg compiler -OpenGL version string: 4.5.0 NVIDIA 358.16 -OpenGL ES profile version string: OpenGL ES 3.2 NVIDIA 358.16 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): libreoffice-writer-5.0.5.2-1.fc23.x86_64 libreoffice-kde-5.0.5.2-1.fc23.x86_64 How reproducible: Always. I can even reproduce with a 6-page document with only text and tables. I tried disabling compositor but it does not help, also tried enabling triple buffer at nvidia section in xorg.conf, but also nothing changed. Steps to Reproduce: 1. Open a document in writer 2. Scroll up and down 3. See on konsole the process Xorg consume between 80 and 99% CPU Actual results: Hangs a lot, very slow rendering, very slow scrolling. Other applications work normally, like Firefox or Thunderbird. Expected results: Should scroll normally, in fact, should be lighting fast, since the hardware I'm using is a high-end machine. Additional info: Multi-headed configuration with 2 monitors @ 1600x1200 xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.18.0-2.fc23.x86_64 kf5-kinit-5.18.0-1.fc23.x86_64
Tried the installation of libreoffice-gtk3 according to BUG #1303562 ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1303562 ) but nothing changed, still high CPU usage by XOrg. Maybe because I'm using KDE?
This happens with LibreOffice 5.0.6.2 in Fedora 23 in i3 WM as well. It's so slow it's unusable as it rerenders itself for cca 3 second everytime the workspace is switched back and forth. Scrolling is also superslow. I should note that I also have nVidia proprietary driver installed so it seems like it's the culprint even though I've disabled OpenCL and HW accel in LibreOffice settings.
Can confirm the same, Fedora 23, i3, LibreOffice 5.0.5.2. At this point I dread receiving Excel files, feels like a 1980s era modem connection, but worse. If anyone has a workaround, please do share.
Can confirm for scrolling and also when writing a lot (i.e: let letter a pressed for a while, CPU usage goes UP, and letter is not render until stop pressing it whe the whole line appears) Fedora 24. LibreOffice Version: 5.1.5.2 Build ID: 5.1.5.2-6.fc24 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4200U CPU @ 1.60GHz
Created attachment 1202625 [details] Video showing the high cpu. Here you can see how the CPU ussage goes UP when I'm writing. And whe I stop, it goes down. You can see the process that are taking the cpu.
This makes writing any document almost impossible. Please check it, and tell us if we can provide any additional data.
Created attachment 1202771 [details] fine for me
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