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From: Robin Bush
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Sluggishness when altering a large IMPROV worksheet
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Date: 15 May 91 21:02:10 GMT
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In article <5b+h4pb@rpi.edu> gad@eclipse.its.rpi.edu (Garance A. Drosehn)  
writes:
> In article <504@heaven.woodside.ca.us> 
>           glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us (Glenn Reid) writes:
> > Robin Bush writes
> > > 
> > > I have an Improv worksheet containing 3 categories, 50 groups and 10
> > > equations.  I find that once the equations are in place, making any 
> > > subsequent structural changes to the worksheet can take a half hour
> > > or longer!
> > 
> > Pretty polite of you to call it "sluggish" if it takes half an hour.
> >     [Glen does some speculating, skipped over here]
> 
> One thing you (Robin) might want to do is open a terminal window and do a 
>       ps -axv
> to see what processes are using up memory on your machine.
> 
> With this large worksheet in place, is it just Improv that is sluggish, or  
are  
> all applications sluggish?


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Thanks to both you and everyone else who has responded to my plea.  
I have a 040 machine with 32 Meg, little else running besides Improv, 
nobody printing, everything else runs ok,  etc, etc. The NeXt is not chugging,  
it just sits there quietly while the Improv wheel turns and turns.  I called  
the Improv support line, they said they have been getting lots of calls from  
people with similar problems  (trying to make structural changes to a big data  
set having  lots of structure and equations).  They said they were surprised  
that people were using Improv for so many different things, and that their  
engineers had only made sure that it worked well for worksheets like those  
little business ones they show in the documentation!!! They also made what  
turned out to be a useless suggestion: to save as an .imx file instead of an  
imp file, the logic being that dumping the formatting might help.  Turns out  
that all you get in an .imx file is a picture of your equations - they don't  
work.  


Anyway, thanks for the suggestions.

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