Bug 62495 - SIGABRT when saving large spreadsheet
Summary: SIGABRT when saving large spreadsheet
Status: RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Calc (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
4.0.1.2 release
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64) Linux (All)
: medium normal
Assignee: Not Assigned
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Keywords: perf
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2013-03-18 21:57 UTC by Clemens Eisserer
Modified: 2018-12-04 08:13 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Attachments
gdb full backtrace (7.35 KB, text/plain)
2013-03-18 21:57 UTC, Clemens Eisserer
Details
Log trace without crash (4.20 KB, text/plain)
2013-04-16 19:10 UTC, Arnaud Versini
Details

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Description Clemens Eisserer 2013-03-18 21:57:19 UTC
Created attachment 76715 [details]
gdb full backtrace

When saving an extremly large spreadsheet, LibreOffice dies for me with SIGABRT. Its not related to memory shortage, as LibreOffice consumes only about 1.8gb of RAM while my machine has 8GB and is running Linux-64 with LibreOffice 64-bit binaries.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Download the file at: https://mega.co.nz/#!5d0j3b6A!chMGwxtsd3qKHPPkWKOrDlryAFtaZrI91dUiuQ3Jva4
2. Open the file
3. Modify a single cell somewhere
4. Press Ctrl+S to save the file again
Comment 1 Arnaud Versini 2013-04-15 19:48:13 UTC
Could you please send us the doc with an other way ? http://dl.free.fr/ for example
Comment 2 Arnaud Versini 2013-04-16 19:10:46 UTC
Created attachment 78107 [details]
Log trace without crash
Comment 3 Arnaud Versini 2013-04-16 19:11:19 UTC
Can't reproduce the crash for now but seems to have some leaks.
Comment 4 Jorendc 2013-04-16 22:13:06 UTC
Hi,

Thanks for reporting.

I can confirm this documents keep filling my memory (now up to 3,5GB of the total 4GB (92,0%), and raising). So therefore we can mark this bug as NEW and accept the bug report.

On the other hand, this bug may be never get fixed. The only thing we can advice is to try to use a database instead of such extremely huge documenst (159mb of information). A spreadsheet isn't meant to manage such kind of data; a database is.

I hope you understand.

Kind regards,
Joren
Comment 5 Clemens Eisserer 2013-04-17 06:04:23 UTC
Hi.

> On the other hand, this bug may be never get fixed. The only thing we can
> advice is to try to use a database instead of such extremely huge documenst
> (159mb of information).

Memory leaks typically are not related to the size of the data, therefore calc probably leaks also with smaller documents, which definitively is a bug and has to be fixed.

> A spreadsheet isn't meant to manage such kind of data;
> a database is.

Probably, probably not. Excel-2013 has no problems with spreadsheets of such size and loads the xsls-version of the same document consuming far leass than 1GB of memory. In my opinion that should be reason enough to fix calc to make it equal to its competitor...
Comment 6 Alex Thurgood 2015-01-03 17:41:29 UTC Comment hidden (no-value)
Comment 7 Robinson Tryon (qubit) 2015-12-09 18:08:28 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 8 QA Administrators 2017-01-03 19:43:20 UTC Comment hidden (obsolete)
Comment 9 Roman Kuznetsov 2018-12-03 20:20:05 UTC
example file was removed from site on link

retest of this bug is impossible

Xisco, what I should make with this situation?
Comment 10 Clemens Eisserer 2018-12-03 20:21:52 UTC
cool I filed this bug-report almost 6 years ago ;)
Comment 11 Roman Kuznetsov 2018-12-03 21:30:32 UTC
(In reply to Clemens Eisserer from comment #10)
> cool I filed this bug-report almost 6 years ago ;)

can you retest your problem with latest version of LO 6.1.3 or current dev-buid 6.2 or 6.3?
Comment 12 Xisco Faulí 2018-12-04 07:50:56 UTC
Dear Clemens Eisserer,
OTOH, please provide the document to reproduce the issue...
Comment 13 Clemens Eisserer 2018-12-04 07:54:17 UTC
I am sorry, but I don't have the document any more. I didn't think this bug would stay essentially un-looked at for 6 years.
Comment 14 Xisco Faulí 2018-12-04 08:13:11 UTC
Unfortunately there's not much we can't do if the document is not available anymore...
Closing as RESOLVED INSUFFICIENTDATA.