Ubuntu 16.04 LTS - LibreOffice5-Calc - Painfully Slow Save

[mister_russ]

It takes 50 minutes to save a LibreOffice 5 Calc spreadsheet in .ods format. The spreadsheet is 163K, 6 tabs, lots of column summations with many cell comments and loads normally in maybe 10 seconds.
The first time I save the file it literally takes 50 minutes! to complete. I get a gray shaded screen for the whole time until the last few seconds, then color comes back and the orange progress bar fills from left to right across the bottom of the screen.

During this time Ubuntu functions normally with no singe of stress.

During this time the duel CPUs in my system (Dell E6400) swap off running at 97 -100%

The process "soffice.bin" under oosplash is running at 100 to 106%.

Memory usage is sitting a 46-48% of 2.9 Gb while swap is at 0% of 1.9 Gb

After waiting for this save cycle to complete, the second save completes much faster. Almost normal. The screen still grays out for a second or two then returns and saves with the progress bar action as before.

Moving around the sheet by using the scroll bars to change columns or rows is jerky and jumps 3 rows or columns for each mouse click.

None of this occurred until I upgraded from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS.
I'm ready to downgrade or move my spreadsheet operations back to Windows/Excel.
Yuk. Help!

[skorasaurus (skoraw)]

Thanks for submitting but this appears to be a problem with libreoffice, not with compiz.

[skorasaurus (skoraw)]

You'll need to file a separate bug report at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/

[Olivier Tilloy (osomon)]

We are sorry that we do not always have the capacity to review all reported bugs in a timely manner. You reported this bug some time ago, are you still seeing the problem with the latest updates of LibreOffice is Ubuntu 16.04 (or in 18.04 if you upgraded) ?

If so, would you mind filing a bug report upstream at https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/enter_bug.cgi?product=LibreOffice&format=guided, and sharing the bug to that link here?

Thank you for helping make Ubuntu better.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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