soffice.bin has CPU pinned at 100%

[ttownsend]

Hi all,

After wrestling to get previewing working (see: https://forums.alfresco.com/en/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=46955) I was seeing occasional sluggish behaviour on my 4.2.b/Ubuntu 12.04x64 server.

After doing a 'top' to see the processes running, I noticed that soffice.bin is at/near 100% CPU utilization constantly.
I'm going to let it run overnight and check in the a.m.

Is this something normal?  Possibly tied to content extraction for indexing?

EDIT:
After running overnight, soffice.bin is still keeping the CPU at/near 100%

[pmcneil]

I had the same problem running on a headless linux box. The problem turned out to be in open/libre office you need to change the configuration file "sofficerc" and change Logo=1 to Logo=0.

It seems that despite all the -nologo options on the command line it still tries to get X windows to display the logo.

You can find sofficerc in …/alfresco-4.2.a/libreoffice/program or where ever yu are running soffice.bin from (look in alfrsco-global.properties)

Found the problem here https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1047398

Hope that helps.
Peter.

[ttownsend]

Hi Peter,

Thanks for this - for this and other reasons, I had to regress my production server to 4.0.e, but still have my 4.2.b dev box.  When I get a chance I'll check this on let you know what I find.  I'll check my 4.0.e to see the config here out of curiosity.

Many thanks,
Trevor