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Subject:    Re: Formatting large docs in Kword
From:       Jonathan Drews <j.e.drews () worldnet ! att ! net>
Date:       2002-12-10 8:04:31
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On Tuesday 10 December 2002 12:25 am, Clarence Dang wrote:
> Hi Jonathan,

> Try loading your text file with the other two options in the "End of
> Paragraph" group i.e. "Sentence" and "Old method" (not "As is") in
> the "KWord's Plain Text Import Filter" dialog.  They are not perfect
> but I think they will do what you want.



 Splendid!  Worked like a charm Clarence.


> I can see Nicolas smiling here because I once told him that these
> modes where "exotic" and "useless" :-)  But now it seems like I'm
> wrong!

 Well I have made similar blunders, if it is any consolation.  Now I can 
import the Gutenberg  books into Kword and put the footnotes in proper 
order.
>
> > BTW Kword now loads and edits these big docs pretty quickly.
>
> Really?  The filter reads one character at a time, last time I
> checked... You should try loading the 20MB DNA sequence associated
> with bug #45973 :-) (actually the real problem with that bug is the
> amount of memory that KWord takes up but anyway I'm getting OT again

 Yes, but by using your advice it loaded Volume 1 of Decline and Fall of 
The Roman Empire pretty quickly. I then saved that as a Kword doc (with 
the new full page format) and reopened it.  Memory consumption was 
negligible!  It did not use swap for a 361 page Kword doc with Footers 
and Headers. When I loaded the original text file using "As is: At the 
end of the line", the memory consumption was enormous.  It used  ~500 
Mb. So the page formating makes a big difference in the memory 
consumed?  
 I then copied and pasted the 361 pages to make a 722 page Kword 
document. It still did not use much swap space. Here is the output from 
top:
PID USER  PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME COM
2025 kword     25   0  116M 115M  7540 R    90.0 46.0   5:36 kdeinit
1916 root      15   0 76404 6040   832 R     2.6  2.3   0:32 X
2028 planck    15   0 85520  11M  9364 R     1.9  4.6   0:00 kdeinit
2036 planck    15   0   984  984   764 R     0.6  0.3   0:00 top

Note that RSS is 115 M for the account that is running Kword from CVS 
head (that account is named Kword also). 

 You should also know that I run two X sessions at once. KDE 3.0.5 on 
dipslay :0 and KDE_3_1_BRANCH on display :2. 

 Just out of curiosity, I copied and pasted the 722 page doc to double 
it to 1444 pages (1,074,992 words and  6,436,792 characters including 
spaces)


At the end of the load I had this from top:

Mem:  255964K av,  251428K used,  4536K free,    0K shrd,   6528K buff
Swap:  522100K av,  263428K used,  258672K free   24316K cached
PID USER  PRI  NI  SIZE  RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM   TIME 
2025 kword   25   0  224M 155M 87620     R      94.3 62.0  39:34 kdeinit

It took about half an hour to paste the 722 additional pages, to make 
the 1444 page *kwd. The first doubling was pretty quick about a few 
minutes.  The saved 1444 page *kwd was 2.6 Mb. 

 


 
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