Public bug reported:
Opening a file in KSpread causes the program to bring the machine to its
knees (almost all X activities nearly cease to function for quite some
time) and use a vast amount of RAM. The file was a simple ODF
spreadsheet with 6 columns and one column of formulas, with very little
formatting, of about 100 KB in size. When file was clicked and kspread
chosen, kspread, to my astonishment, took 98% or more of 8 GB of RAM,
and then an additional 2.6 GB of swap. When kspread was just opened on
its own from the Gnome menu, it seemingly opened normally, but when
File-->Open was done on this file, kspread used up the 8 GB of real RAM,
and then claimed 3.6 GB of swap (RAM and swap figures obtained from
System Monitor). Closing or killing kspread dropped swap usage down to
about 400 MB, and RAM usage down to the 800 or so MB being used before
kspread was opened (truthfully, I've never really used any real amount
of swap in this machine before).
KSpread should just work, opening file normally with at most a few tens
of MB of RAM used between itself and the file, and not affect any other
program's GUI functioning (nor need any swap).
Using fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 alpha 5 upgraded to alpha 6 packages 2 weeks
later, 64-bit.
kspread:
Installed: 1:1.6.3-7ubuntu8
Candidate: 1:1.6.3-7ubuntu8
Version table:
*** 1:1.6.3-7ubuntu8 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com karmic/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
** Affects: koffice (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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kspread uses HUGE amount of RAM
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/434976
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