Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:32:16 -0800 From: "Wiliam Woods" <wwoods@cybcon.com> To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net>, "Richard Seaman" <dick@tar.com> Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 Message-ID: <008c01be35ce$37780460$f301040a@c063.beaverton.stream.com>
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I notice you got StarOffice 5.0 running...Would you mind giving me instructions how you did it? I would like to be able to use it as soon as I get current up and running. BTW, you are on an elf system I assume? Bill -----Original Message----- From: Kevin G. Eliuk <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: Richard Seaman <dick@tar.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Date: Friday, January 01, 1999 1:17 PM Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 >On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Richard Seaman wrote: > >> The linux threads "port" isn't necessary for emulation, and therefore >> not necessary for StarOffice. > >Okay, this is what I was originally to understand from your notes, >although I wanted to try all avenues before asking the question. > >> > Any ideas on where I can go from here. >> >> Only one. I should note that I'm not a StarOffice guru by any means. >> I've only tried it out as a test case of the linux threads emulation >> code. > >> The idea is that StarOffice is a resource hog, and you don't have much >> RAM. I'm not smart enought to read the output you sent to find how >> much swap space you have. Is is possible you're just running out of >> resources? When I run soffice, just the initial program, without >> actually doing anything, shows 24MB of resident memory and 32MB of >> total vm memory under "top". And, this is with my vm stack patches >> applied. I'd guess the vm memory would jump another 10MB without >> them. > >Oh yeah, finally got it to run. The problem was with the XF86_S3V, as >soon as I switched to _SVGA I didn't have a problem. > >Very slow on the resources that I am giving it. > >> You presumably have an X server running, plus whatever else, so is >> it possible you just need more RAM? I've only tried it on a >> machine with 256MB of RAM and 512MB of swap. :) > > >last pid: 1070; load averages: 0.05, 0.19, 0.25 up 0+02:58:05 13:05:27 >46 processes: 1 running, 45 sleeping > >Mem: 9252K Active, 6748K Inact, 7276K Wired, 5824K Cache, 3448K Buf, 808K Free >Swap: 256M Total, 33M Used, 223M Free, 13% Inuse > > > PID USERNAME PRI NICE SIZE RES STATE TIME WCPU CPU COMMAND > 627 cagey 2 0 14728K 4224K select 4:37 0.05% 0.05% XF86_SVGA > 646 cagey 2 0 3780K 1032K select 0:42 0.00% 0.00% kwm > 998 cagey 2 0 47736K 3436K select 0:41 0.00% 0.00% soffice.bin > 647 cagey 10 0 3944K 232K nanslp 0:34 0.00% 0.00% maudio > 641 cagey 2 0 6556K 696K select 0:17 0.00% 0.00% kfm > 255 cagey 2 0 1388K 256K select 0:14 0.00% 0.00% ppp > 645 cagey 2 0 4740K 1072K select 0:09 0.00% 0.00% kpanel > 1060 cagey 2 0 4080K 1492K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% kvt > 643 cagey 2 0 3944K 324K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% kbgndwm > 257 cagey 2 0 996K 52K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% fetchmail > 1052 cagey 2 0 4056K 1728K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% kvt > 1061 cagey 10 0 3084K 604K nanslp 0:01 0.00% 0.00% pine > 640 cagey 2 0 3768K 304K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% kwmsound > 644 cagey 2 0 3812K 236K select 0:01 0.00% 0.00% krootwm > 1008 cagey 10 0 47736K 3436K nanslp 0:01 0.00% 0.00% soffice.bin > 1037 cagey 18 0 47736K 3436K pause 0:00 0.00% 0.00% soffice.bin > 639 cagey 10 0 3952K 8K nanslp 0:00 0.00% 0.00% kaudioserver > 1062 cagey 3 0 1264K 532K ttyin 0:00 0.00% 0.00% vi > >Thanks for the help and have a HappyNewYear every one. > >--- > Regards, > Kevin G. Eliuk > >Discover Rock Solid, Discover FreeBSD | http://www.FreeBSD.Org > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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