Bug 46067

Summary: [EDITING] LibO Crashes when editing document with many images
Product: LibreOffice Reporter: Matthias Basler <libreoffice>
Component: WriterAssignee: Not Assigned <libreoffice-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME    
Severity: major    
Priority: medium    
Version: 3.5.0 release   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Windows (All)   
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Description Matthias Basler 2012-02-14 14:24:25 UTC 
On WinXP SP3, 3GB RAM, Core2Duo

LibO 3.5.0 Released crashes repeatedly trying to do larger edits on a 70+ page document with half of the pages being full of photos.
Example tasks are: Converting a chapter from one column to two column text, deleting one or several chapters and so on.
This is 100% reproducable for me. To reproduce, download attached sample document and try one of the following:
- Either mark all the text of chapter 2 (until heading of chapter 3) and try to format it with two text columns instead of one.
- Or try to delete the whole text content of chapter 1 or 2.

Result: Crash and LibO will save document for recovery.

Note 1: This is basically the same document that LibO 3.4.4 wasn't even able to open without crashing.

Note 2: After shrinking this document to the first ~20 pages, no more crashes occur.

Note 3: OpenOffice 3.3.0 does NOT show similar crashes, it has been able to cope with this document without problems during the last two days. (Needless to say that I will continue my work with OOo 3.3 for now...)
Comment 1 Matthias Basler 2012-02-14 14:37:59 UTC 
The sample file is 33MB.
I see I cannot attach a file >3MB. In this case I ask that you recommend me a file upload service because I don't have any web space to host that file myself.
Sorry.
Comment 2 Matthias Basler 2012-02-15 11:56:39 UTC 
The test file mentioned in the bug report can now download from my MediaCenter:
https://mc.gmx.net/guest?path=Meine%20Dokumente%20von%20matthiasbasler%40earthflight.org&token=425CD698469014B4

The file is named "test4.odt" and is ~33MB large.

(Please let me know if you have problems accessing this file. I can send it per email as well if needed.)
Comment 3 ign_christian 2013-06-24 08:37:21 UTC 
Not reproducible on LO 4.0.4.2 (Win7 32bit), though my h/w spec below yours. Indeed I experienced lag a few seconds while marking whole chapter 1 after reformatting chapter 2.

Please REOPENED this bug if that still persists on latest stable release & after you try adjusting LO memory settings.