Microsoft Office 2004 -- extremely high cpu usage and virtual ram

hi,
when i use office it causes a very high cpu usage even when its in idle mode.
i am unable to work with it, because its extremely slow.
does anyone have same experiences?
thanks for your help!
mbp 2.0 1,5gb ram 80gb hdd Mac OS X (10.4.7)

I am able to work OK with office, I'm using the 'old version' Microsoft Office v.X, not much details in the About Box, just listed as MSoft Word/Excel/etc for Mac service release 1.
I get the occasional crash, and I have seen Word in particular use 90% of a single core and amazingly large virtual memory usage, gigabytes sometimes, but eventually the document gets printed.
It shows how useful the dual core (or quad) cpu approach is!
One cpu for Word to print, and one cpu to run the rest of my applications/life!
I still use this old office rather than re-booting into Window§ for whatever is the latest version of office.
Doing some playing with a similar one page document in Office v.X and Pages 2.01, I get Word using about 25% of a core , Pages using 5%, - whilst editing; Intel native Pages has 20% of a core and 80MB ram 480 virtual whilst printing, Word has about 100% of a core and 65MB ram 650 virtual whilst printing, but it is a powerPC code so Rosetta is in there somewhere.
check Activity Monitor or other apps/widgets for some parasitic processes? have fun!
many Macs 512k -> MacBool Pro 2GHz 1GB ram Mac OS X (10.4.7) Yes, I have Key Lime

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Mar 12 17:31:37 silverstone kernel: 5 disabled
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PASS: /var/log/journal/9ddaa50d8841758bb1bea9b700000f33/system@2c1af599e637441985385fe37ded2a2c-00000000000d26b1-0004d7c3ea1b73f7.journal
PASS: /var/log/journal/9ddaa50d8841758bb1bea9b700000f33/system@5e6edd359123491f9998a310206ccbf9-000000000002a43f-0004d7c425785944.journal
PASS: /var/log/journal/9ddaa50d8841758bb1bea9b700000f33/system@2c1af599e637441985385fe37ded2a2c-00000000000539fb-0004d7c3b2d1f935.journal
PASS: /var/log/journal/9ddaa50d8841758bb1bea9b700000f33/system@5e6edd359123491f9998a310206ccbf9-0000000000054d23-0004d7c4354da4ef.journal
PASS: /var/log/journal/9ddaa50d8841758bb1bea9b700000f33/user-1000@2c1af599e637441985385fe37ded2a2c-0000000000001706-0004d7c38cd3de88.journal
PASS: /var/log/journal/9ddaa50d8841758bb1bea9b700000f33/user-1000@5e6edd359123491f9998a310206ccbf9-00000000000019b4-0004d7c4153f8628.journal
PASS: /var/log/journal/9ddaa50d8841758bb1bea9b700000f33/system@2c1af599e637441985385fe37ded2a2c-000000000007e345-0004d7c3c3ed8197.journal
I am using a two or three year old SSD, so maybe it has gotten some bad sectors? But that doesn't explain why journald still bricks things when it isn't logging anything. The install is 10 months old, and I switched from init to systemd around October. Is there anything I can do, short of reinstalling?
Thanks,
Nicholas
Last edited by bicyclingrevolution (2013-03-14 05:57:13)

Thanks for the tip ilkyest, but it didn't make any difference to the systemd-journald problem.
However, I looked at journalctl again and found it cluttered with CUPS failures:
-- Logs begin at Tue 2013-03-12 19:17:00 PDT, end at Wed 2013-03-13 22:31:31 PDT. --
Mar 12 19:17:00 silverstone spideroak_inotify[796]: Program started
Mar 12 19:21:30 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
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Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
Mar 12 19:21:30 silverstone systemd-journal[143]: Suppressed 5471 messages from /system
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:30 silverstone systemd-journal[143]: Suppressed 5699 messages from /system
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Printing Service.
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Printing Service.
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: Failed to start CUPS Printing Service.
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: Starting CUPS Printing Service...
Mar 12 19:21:27 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:30 silverstone systemd-coredump[1592]: Process 1590 (cupsd) dumped core.
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Profile added: Deskjet_3840-Gray..
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Profile added: Deskjet_3840-RGB..
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Device added: cups-Deskjet_3840
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Profile added: Deskjet_F4100-Gray..
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Profile added: Deskjet_F4100-RGB..
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Device added: cups-Deskjet_F4100
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone dbus[337]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service'
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone dbus[337]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service failed to load: No such file or directory. See system logs
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Profile removed: Deskjet_3840-Gray..
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: Profile removed: Deskjet_3840-RGB..
Mar 12 19:21:28 silverstone colord[354]: device removed: cups-Deskjet_3840
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone colord[354]: Profile removed: Deskjet_F4100-Gray..
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone colord[354]: Profile removed: Deskjet_F4100-RGB..
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone colord[354]: device removed: cups-Deskjet_F4100
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone dbus-daemon[337]: dbus[337]: [system] Activating via systemd: service name='org.freedesktop.Avahi' unit='dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service'
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone dbus-daemon[337]: dbus[337]: [system] Activation via systemd failed for unit 'dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service': Unit dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service failed to load: No such file or director
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd-journal[143]: Missed 6365 kernel messages
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone cupsd[1590]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone cupsd[1590]: cupsd: client.c:757: avahi_client_get_host_name: Assertion `client' failed.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone cupsd[1594]: Unknown directive DefaultAuthType on line 9.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Mar 12 19:21:31 silverstone systemd[1]: cups.service start request repeated too quickly, refusing to start.
Disabling cups solved the CPU usage issue.
It looks like the root of the problem is Avahi failing to start, but I have no idea why it isn't working.
$ systemctl status dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
dbus-org.freedesktop.Avahi.service
Loaded: error (Reason: No such file or directory)
Active: inactive (dead)

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