On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 4:45 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > I've been conducting a little experiment over the past hour. Running OO 4.0.1 > on Xubuntu 13.10, I monitored memory usage of OpenOffice. > I found that as long as OpenOffice was in use, it did not fully release > memory used by earlier files even though these had been closed. > > I monitored total computer memory in use when OO was open at the Splash > screen. The idle condition of the computer was 142 MB. Memory in use > commenced at 172 MB with OO open with no file, increased to 292 MB with a > text file of 58K words, reduced to 289 MB when that file was closed, then > increased to 324 MB on opening a 70 slide presentation (optimised to about > 4MB), reduced to 318 MB when that was closed and after OO was closed it > reverted to 149 MB. > > Perhaps (and I only say perhaps!) this internal use of memory by OpenOffice > is a factor in the reported crash/file loss problem; when OO is running 24/7, > one can suspect from the above rough test that internal resources might be > consumed, leading to a crash or wierd behaviour. I am aware that experienced > users, as those on the dev list, will restart their computer and/or > applications regularly, but inexperienced users overlook doing this. > > Perhaps OO memory allocation and usage should be reviewed? If someone comes > up with a monitoring batch file for linux, I'm quite happy to allocate a > spare machine to run this for an extended period and return the results. > (Xubuntu or Ubuntu preferred, but I will install anther linux distro if > needed). >
I could dedicate a Windows virtual machine to running such a test as well, for hours or days. Is this something that can be done in a macro, e.g., take a directory of files and load each one, close, and load the next, repeating in a loop? -Rob > -- > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
