Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 20:54:48 -0500 (EST) From: Brian Feldman <green@unixhelp.org> To: Scott Barron <sbarron@vvm.com> Cc: Richard Seaman <dick@tar.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812312054090.3621-100000@janus.syracuse.net> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.981231174403.sbarron@vvm.com>
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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Scott Barron wrote: > > On 31-Dec-98 Richard Seaman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 31, 1998 at 10:43:58AM -0800, Kevin G. Eliuk wrote: > > > > [SNIP] > > >> 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. > > > > 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. :) > > > > -- > > I would like to add a note here. I had the same problem described > while running Linux. My box has 96M RAM and about 130M of swap space. Star > Office would freeze in about the same place, but I was not so lucky to have > regained control of my keyboard and hence had to do a cold boot. After doing > it twice I decided to heck with it and downloaded word perfect 8. I have not > tried anything on FreeBSD yet. Has anyone attempted running WP8 on FreeBSD? > It was a lot less resource hungry than SO4 on Linux. The Beta of WP8 ran fine, although I tended to just plain not like the word processor at all. > > -Scott > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Brian Feldman _ __ ___ ___ ___ green@unixhelp.org _ __ ___ | _ ) __| \ http://www.freebsd.org/ _ __ ___ ____ | _ \__ \ |) | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! _ __ ___ ____ _____ |___/___/___/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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