[K12OSN] CXOFFICE cause High Load on K12LTSP 5.0

[Glenn Arnold]

Hi Jermey,

Thanks for your response.  I actually called your Tech Support and Steve
said he would try to help through e-mail.  I was running CXOFFICE 5.03
and upgraded to 6.0 and it seems to have helped.  But, I will find out
exactly what templates they are using in PowerPoint to make this work.
I also I can upgrade the backbone of the lab from 100mb fiber to 1GB
fiber to give the terminals a little more oomph.  Since this class is
just Powerpoint, Word or Excel have not been tested with a load.  But,
just using Word and Excel by itself no big problems that I can see when
I use it.  One test I did was I opened Powerpoint Presentations in
Impress and the performance was significantly better.  That is to be
expected since Impress is native to Linux though.  

Thanks for your help!
-Glenn

-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremy White [mailto:jwhite at codeweavers.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 4:20 PM
To: Support list for open source software in schools.
Subject: Re: [K12OSN] CXOFFICE cause High Load on K12LTSP 5.0

Hi Glenn,

I'd get a ticket in with us to see if we can fix this for you.

Powerpoint is going to be a worst case; it can be annoyingly
graphical.  But still, you've got enough fire power that I would
think you'd be okay.

(And I do agree that if you can get Impress workable, that
would be best).

One question:  is it just Powerpoint, or do you see this
behavior with Word as well?  If it's the latter, then something
is clearly wrong, and you should get in touch with us so
we can fix it.  With Powerpoint, it may be that there are templates
that the students are using; if you can switch away to less
graphically intense templates, you may find that things are
more sprightly.

Cheers,

Jeremy

Glenn Arnold wrote:
> Hi everybody!,
> 
> I have Dell Poweredge 2850 with two Dual core 2.8GHZ processors with
8GB
> of Ram and Raid 5 disk setup.  I am running CXOffice pro 5.0 running
> Office 2000.  The problem is at the school there is Microsoft
Powerpoint
> class that has 21 students when they start Powerpoint running top
shows
> CPU 5%-10% utilization, but the load shows up to 116 % fluctuates
> 85%-90%. The server for troubleshooting purposes had only 21 students
on
> at the time with 4 processors I would expect it should handle this
load
> with no problems.  Is their anybody else running Powerpoint with 20
some
> students without any problems?  Any suggestions would be appreciated.
> If the school would let me have my way we would just run Impress and
> things would just work.  But, this is a political thing and their pcs
> are too old and decrepit and I will  not support the lab running
> Windows!
> 
> Thanks in Advance!
> 
> -Glenn
>  
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