Description: In LibO 4.1.0.4 only 145kb got written (empty document) while minimizing or restoring. With LibO 5.4.0.0 i notice writes of 600 kb (with an empty document). Is this normal behavior? More generally, I wonder if it is necessary to write something while: 1. Opening a new document (MS Office doesn't) 2. Minimizing a restoring a window (MS Office doesn't write something) Steps to Reproduce: 1.Open Writer in for example LibO 4.1.0.4 2.Open a few blank documents 3.Minimize them and take notice of Written bytes 4.Open Writer in for example 5.3.0.0b2 5.Open a few blank documents 6.Minimize them and take notice of Written bytes Actual Results: Every time after minimizing or restoring something gets written to the disk. The bytes written has increased (with factor 4) since 4.1.0.4 Expected Results: No writes at all or less bytes Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: Test done with Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: 84f2ff67a7e404febf710b1dc7f66d06745c503f CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2016-12-09_23:20:01 Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); Calc: CL Version: 5.0.0.5 Build ID: 1b1a90865e348b492231e1c451437d7a15bb262b Locale: en-US (nl_NL) Versie: 4.1.0.4 Build ID: 89ea49ddacd9aa532507cbf852f2bb22b1ace28 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.2; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0
You could investigate with Process Monitor https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor https://askleo.com/i_have_constant_disk_activity_and_i_dont_know_why_how_can_i_tell_what_program_is_doing_it/ I discussed with devs and it might just be Windows swapping to disk more as LibO memory use has increased.
Created attachment 129632 [details] Screencast LO5400
Created attachment 129633 [details] Screencast LO4103
Created attachment 129634 [details] Proces Monitor Output LO5400 Process Monitor Output for minimizing/restoring a few times with LO5400
Created attachment 129674 [details] SAL_LOG=+TIMESTAMP+INFO,+WARN SAL_LOG while minimizing and restoring a few times Version: 5.4.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: d538d3d84172a74dfe97d59a6d3daf9a45459cab CPU Threads: 4; OS Version: Windows 6.19; UI Render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@39, Branch:master, Time: 2016-12-14_00:28:59 Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); Calc: CL
(In reply to Telesto from comment #5) > Created attachment 129674 [details] > SAL_LOG=+TIMESTAMP+INFO,+WARN > > SAL_LOG while minimizing and restoring a few times Btw. you can output to a file from cygwin: mycommand > sal_log_output.txt 2>&1 This saves both the stderr and stdout output to the same file.
Another way to reproduce: 1. Open Writer 2. Open the Insert Character dialog 3. Double click on the a character (inserting it). A temp file gets created every time when inserting a symbol sal3.dll osl_writeSocket + 0x7e sal3.dll osl_createTempFile + 0xc8 configmgrlo.dll configmgr_component_getFactory + 0x10335 configmgrlo.dll configmgrlo.dll + 0x3f573 salhelper3MSC.dll salhelper::Thread::run + 0x48 salhelper3MSC.dll salhelper::Thread::run + 0x63d sal3.dll osl_getTempDirURL + 0x2f8 ucrtbase.DLL crt_at_quick_exit + 0x104 KERNEL32.DLL BaseThreadInitThunk + 0xe ntdll.dll RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 0x85 ntdll.dll RtlInitializeExceptionChain + 0x58
Variant 1 1. Open Writer 2. Launch Process Monitor. Add two filters: * Process Name is soffice.bin * Path contains \user\ 3. Add a table 4. Remove a table row Temp file is writing when adding the table and also when removing the table. Repro with: LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 but not with LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4 ----------------------------- Variant 2 1.Open Writer 2. Launch Process Monitor. Add two filters: * Process Name is soffice.bin * Path contains \user\ 3.Open a few blank documents 4.Minimize them and take notice of Written bytes Temp write when minimizing LibreOffice 3.5.7.2 Build ID: 3215f89-f603614-ab984f2-7348103-1225a5b Nothing is written with: LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4 --------------------------------- Variant 3 1. Open Writer 2. Launch Process Monitor. Add two filters: * Process Name is soffice.bin * Path contains \user\ 3. Open the Insert Character dialog 4. Double click on the a character (inserting it). A temp file gets created every time when inserting a symbol also reproducible with LibreOffice 3.3.0 OOO330m19 (Build:6) tag libreoffice-3.3.0.4
Created attachment 134783 [details] Example file The amount of data written has dropped from 900 kb to 120 kb ;-) Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha0+ Build ID: a9588baca8137f51e2ca72e40b1f448b0e1885d1 CPU threads: 4; OS: Windows 6.19; UI render: default; TinderBox: Win-x86@42, Branch:master, Time: 2017-07-21_02:58:26 Locale: nl-NL (nl_NL); Calc: CL Another way to reproduce 1. Open the attached document 2. Launch Process Monitor. Add two filters: * Process Name is soffice.bin * Path contains \user\ 3. Press Shift + Right arrow (->) in Writer -> Notice the creating of a temp file (102.3 KB will be written)
(In reply to Telesto from comment #9) > Created attachment 134783 [details] > Example file > > The amount of data written has dropped from 900 kb to 120 kb ;-) Perhaps the change is due to the GSoC work so far? https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/log/?qt=author&q=akshay+deep Now you confirmed the situation is actually better than with 4.1. Adding Akshay to CC in case he wants to investigate or comment on the meaning of the disk writing operation.