OpenOffice (and others) memory usage...

[Peter Arremann]

On Sunday 05 December 2004 19:23, Craig wrote:
> 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

Thank you - have you by any chance checked any other of the apps I've 
mentioned? For me, almost every single app reacts the same way - OpenOffice 
is just the worst offender - 300 or more MB for a spell checker is a bit 
much.

Peter.