OpenOffice (and others) memory usage...

[Craig]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 18:04 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Peter Arremann wrote:
> 
> > Can you do me a favor? Exit OO, restart it, then open a new document. 
> > Look at the memory usage. Then go type a random mispelled word and right click 
> > on it. Once the dialog has popped open, check the memory usage again...
> 
> Just reporting the 'used' memory (-buffers/cache) reported by 'free'
> 
> Before OO starts                   : 155812
> After starting OO with a foo.doc   : 188388
> % ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soff
> soffice.bin      192372 66100
> 
> After 'type a random mispelled word and right click' (I had to trying a
> few times at which point CPU usage was 100% for a few sec) : 615164
> % ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soff
> soffice.bin      619132 493692
> 
> After stopping OO                   : 162528
> 
> - Ok - looks like OO is hogging memory. Perhaps a bug in OO?
> 
> Satish

I would agree, just used tried to right-click on an unknown word in one
of my existing docs, which is several pages long, and OO locked up my
system for 5 minutes. When I tried to recreate the same event and track
its memory usage, it locked up the system good and tight. I couldn't do
anything except move the mouse, couldn't reboot X, change to terminal
(Ctrl-Alt-Fx) or anything else except a hardware reboot of the system.

Craig
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