soffice.bin process

[newmember]

I have just installed 3Stable with openoffice3.  I have noticed, even with no activity that the  soffice.bin process continues to use 50-60% of the CPU resources.

RES    SHR S   %CPU  %MEM    TIME+        COMMAND
22m  16m S   58      2.2        31:31.48     soffice.bin

This process stops when I stop Alfresco.
Is this something normal?
This process doesn't seem to be using up more memory.

Thanks

[mrogers]

Do you have much content?   It could just be the indexer doing its work.

[newmember]

Good thought.  I wonder if its getting stuck on the docx file.

4 files
1 docx which it will likely ignore
2 pdf
1 doc

[cdombrowski]

I have the same issue with soffice.bin. 
It seems like when adding content, soffice.bin hangs up randomly. 
This happened to me about a week or two ago, i restarted alfresco and all was well.  But now it's back.

I am running alfresco share 3.2.  i have updated OO to version 3.2. 

Has anyone pinpointed what triggers this?

[cmgray]

Also seeing this behavior on community 3.3g.  Upload a document to Alfresco, soffice.bin uses 100% CPU and alfresco waits, kill soffice.bin and it continues to the metadata screen immediately.

[i5513]

I have this problem too.

With alfresco 3.3 soffice from lenny backports worked fine, but now with both (from backports and from afresco tar.gz) in alfresco 3.4.a are eating 50-60 % cpu and openoffice won't shutdown

I have to kill soffice (or wait many ? minutes) (cpu is slowly go down since alfresco stop was launched)

Any tip about ?

Thank you

[juan]

I experienced the same bug.

This is my working config:

ooo.exe=/ooopath/soffice.bin
ooo.enabled=false
jodconverter.enabled=true
jodconverter.officehome=/ooopath/soffice.bin
jodconverter.portNumbers=8100

[i5513]

Thanks Juan,

I will test with that config.

[fred91]

I have the same problem, soffice.bin started using 50% CPU just after installation.
I don't have any documents and the configuration is the default one.

This problem occured with many version of Ubuntu and Debian : Debian 5 64bits, Ubuntu 10.10 64 bits, Ubuntu 10.04 32 bits, with the Alfresco 3.4b linux installer (alfresco-community-3.4.a-installer-linux-x32.bin or alfresco-community-3.4.a-installer-linux-x64.bin).

When I upload a document, I see an other soffice.bon process running at 100% cpu for just a few seconds which is normal.

Thanks for your help,

Fred

[loftux]

I experienced the same bug.

This is my working config:

ooo.exe=/ooopath/soffice.bin
ooo.enabled=false
jodconverter.enabled=true
jodconverter.officehome=/ooopath/soffice.bin
jodconverter.portNumbers=8100

For what I know, using jodconverter instead of "ooo" is an Enterprise only feature. Still, both use Open Office, jodconverter can however run multiple threads, and start soffice.bin on demand (my interpreation of jodconverter features).