From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 1 05:41:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA11479 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 05:41:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from eros.che.curtin.edu.au ([134.7.142.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA11466 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 05:41:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gdr@eros.che.curtin.edu.au) Received: (from gdr@localhost) by eros.che.curtin.edu.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA09457; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 22:38:16 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gdr) From: Gary Roberts Message-Id: <199807011238.WAA09457@eros.che.curtin.edu.au> Subject: Re: Staroffice 4.0 sp3 running In-Reply-To: <19980701112330.02788@iii.co.uk> from "nik@iii.co.uk" at "Jul 1, 98 11:23:30 am" To: nik@iii.co.uk Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 22:38:16 +1000 (EST) Cc: andre.albsmeier@mchp.siemens.de (Andre Albsmeier), sec@yoda.pi.musin.de (Stefan Zehl), freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organisation: Well Control Australia Phone: +618 9266 7586 Fax: +618 9266 3554 Reply-To: gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au (Gary Roberts) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG nik@iii.co.uk writes :- > On Wed, Jul 01, 1998 at 10:17:03AM +0200, Andre Albsmeier wrote: > > > > Thanks for the hint... After modyfing lib/libsal364.so as well > > Staroffice 4.0 SP3 is running here. > > > > So the complete instructions are: > > I've been following this with some interest. > > I've had StarOffice 4.0 (no service pack) running on my -stable box for a > while. The only problems I've seen with it are that it leaks shared memory > like a sieve, resulting in unpredictable lockups. > > Are these fixed in SP3? I've also been following this with considerable interest. Because of the reported difficulties with SP3, I actually installed SP2 about two weeks ago. I had it running continuously for about 4-5 days (at one stage when I had a look with ps it has clocked up about 100 mins of CPU time) and at no stage did it exhaust my virtual memory. I did have some other hungry apps like netscape running at the same time and I didn't see any lockups at all. I have a 100Mhz Toshiba notebook with 40Mb physical and 120Mb swap. The only thing I got (within a minute or so of initial startup) was exactly 28 lines on the xterm from which I started it, all saying SalImage::Create pShmInfo_->shmid < 0 (28) After that, nothing else unusual occurred. I would guess that the leaks were probably mostly plugged with SP1 :-) (one would hope anyway). Now that Andre has published the workaround to get SP3 running, the only other thing I would like to see is a report from anyone using SP3 to say if it is worthwhile going to SP3 over SP2. Any comments, anyone?? Cheers, -- Gary Roberts (gdr@wcs.uq.edu.au) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message