OpenOffice (and others) memory usage...

[P Jones]

On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 20:50 -0500, P Jones wrote:
> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 19:28 -0500, Peter Arremann wrote:
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > so is not just me... The question is, is this a OO or a fedora problem?
> > I remember reading somewhere that the openoffice.org version of OO uses ispell 
> > while the OO version from Fedora has been modified to use aspell. Is that 
> > correct? Just wanting to make sure that I report the bug at the right 
> > place...
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Peter.
> > 
> > On Sunday 05 December 2004 19:04, 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
> > 
> 
> Hi All;
> 
> Just watching this thread, and wanted to point you at this bug in
> bugzilla:
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=138993
> 
> Not sure if this is the same thing as you are experiencing...
> 
> -P
> 

Hi again;

I forgot to attach the workaround that I read about somewhere that seems
to be working here. I notice, just looking at total memory consumption,
that the first right click on a misspelled word results in a loss of 4
meg of RAM (round numbers).

Anyway, the workaround:
open /usr/lib/ooo-1.1/share/dict/ooo/dictionary.lst in a text editor and
delete or comment out all the lines that refer to dictionaries that you
are NOT intending to use. Also delete the irrelevant HYPH and THES
lines. My dictionary.lst file looks like this:

DICT en US en_US
HYPH en US en_US
THES en US th_en_US

Hope this helps,

-P