To comment on the following update, log in, then open the issue: http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=85321 Issue #|85321 Summary|OOo caches large pixmaps to X server, crashing the X s |erver. Component|framework Version|OOo 2.3 Platform|All URL| OS/Version|Unix, X11 Status|UNCONFIRMED Status whiteboard| Keywords| Resolution| Issue type|DEFECT Priority|P2 Subcomponent|code Assigned to|tm Reported by|www_gmc
------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Jan 17 09:27:53 +0000 2008 ------- Hi, this issue particularly affects thin clients (eg LTSP) and is not limited to OpenOffice (see also firefox bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=395260). The LTSP communities (also edubuntu) have had reports of both Impress and Writer crashing thin clients where a large amount of image data is placed in the document. The application pushes the pixmap image data across onto the X server which is forced to allocate memory to store it. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=478EC01A.1040904%40logicalnetworking.net&forum_name=ltsp-discuss Thin clients are often low power, low memory units who only provide the display, they don't actually run applications. They may have 128MB RAM or sometimes even less. By contrast the server running the application usually has a lot of RAM and CPU power. Unfortunately this pixmap caching shifts the memory footprint from the application server to the thin client causing it to crash (single pixmap images can be 10s of megabytes). It may be feasible for X to discard these images¹ but this is a hack and may well destabilise the application. It seems a better solution for the application to be more cautious about what pixmaps it caches and when it purges them from the cache. Gavin ¹ https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/edubuntu-users/2007-December/003060.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
