Leslie wrote:
I'm noticing similar sorts of things. In particular, when I turn spell checking on, type in a misspelled word, and right-click on it to get suggestions for corrections memory usage goes through the roof and my whole system hangs. I have to hit the power button to get things moving again.
I am running OOo 1.1.4 as installed in Fedora Core 3. All I have added is the Canadian English dictionary. My system has 512 MB memory.
Here are some answers to questions asked earlier in this thread:
G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 18:38 +0100, Duncan Lithgow wrote:
Jonathon Blake wrote:
Duncan wrote:
What macros have you added?
[Some of them suck up RAM and CPU time like nobody's business. ]
No macros have been added.
How many fonts are installed in the OOo font directory? And in the main OS Font directory?
As installed. There are 60 fonts available to OOo.
Did you set the default for the Gallery to open, at startup? How big is the Gallery?
As installed. Gallery is 3.1 MB.
I think Jonathan meant the document you get when you start up - the default document. There's nothing in it, really there isn't.Starting OOo with a blank file still uses 285MB - and after
I find gnome system monitor is most useful for a quick and dirty summary of memory usage. According to it when I first start up memory usage is 220 MB, X Server memory is 1 MB. After fooling around with the Options and Properties windows memory is 232, X Server memory is 1.8.Save the document, unzip it, and see what is in that blank file.
Also take a look at the statistics page on the properties. I suspect you have either a few graphics, or some pretty big "hidden" tables there.
Yes one thing you can do is to run top and tell us the VIRT, RES and SHR values that are reported. On my system, $HOME/OpenOffice.1.1.4/program/soffice.bin is just under 400Kb and I would expect memory usage to be similar. For example I get: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 3372 gerry 16 0 292m 155m 51m S 2.3 20.5 35:45.60 soffice.bin and that looks reasonable to me.
The fun begins when, as I said, I type in a spelling error with the automatic checker on, then right-click. Memory goes up to 555 MB before everything freezes, and the disk drive keeps whirring until I hit the power button.
I think it will be okay if I remember not to spellcheck. It would be nice to have that luxury, though.
Cheers, Leslie
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You need to find your dictionary.lst file. Mine was in /usr/local/OpenOffice.org1.1.4/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst
Open that and see if it's loading more dictionaries than you need. Trim as needed.
That is a known problem in the fc3 rpm of OOo. It is also mentioned a bit earlier in this archive.
Cheers, Duncan
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