Hello list-member :) I had the same experience with OpenOffice. I do have the same amount of RAM, but I think it is not related to the size the machine's memory, UNLESS the use of virtual memory is a problem. The thing is, the 256 of RAM is often used for 100% on my system and therefor it has to swap a lot. OO.org didn't even start in XFCE properly on my machine and I too couldn't kill the process. Even with kill -9. Unfortunately nobody was able to help, I did sent a message over this list but nobody came up with the cause of the problem or a solution. I do think it is BSD related because the process was unkillable. If you find the cause, or even better a solution, to this problem I'd like to hear about it.
Good Luck, Freek Nossin -----Original Message----- From: Benjamin Thelen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: woensdag 27 april 2005 16:20 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: 256 MB not enough RAM for Desktop-FreeBSD, a strange experience Hi list, I started using FreeBSD as a Desktop in December 04 with the hardware configuration below FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p2 Asus TUSL-C with PIII-1133 256 MB RAM WDC WD800JB KDE 3.3.2 OOo-1.1.4 Very often OpenOffice-1.4 died on starting, just showing the splash screen. I couldn't kill the process, even not with "-9". So I had to reboot. Because of KDEs behavior to start applications, which have been used before, OpenOffice was started automatically on KDEs startup. Mostly successful. OpenOffice started a bit more reliable using XFCE4... In combination with this FreeBSD was hanging on the end of a shutdown: No buffers busy after final sync I didn't find very helpful information on the net, but since I added 256 MB of RAM I have never seen one of these errors. Does someone have any idea what that could have been caused? Adding more RAM, gaining stability, gaining speed, ok... Ben _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
