From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 06:20:03 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA29755 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:20:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ras-s84.nyc.transwire.net (ras-s84.nyc.transwire.net [199.105.68.85]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA29742 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 06:20:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oghost@ras-s84.nyc.transwire.net) Received: (qmail 863 invoked by uid 13909); 31 Dec 1998 23:46:06 -0000 From: "Ben Grubin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <13964.3262.90717.900266@ras-s84.nyc.transwire.net> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 18:46:06 -0500 (EST) To: Scott Barron Cc: Richard Seaman , current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Kevin G. Eliuk" Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 In-Reply-To: References: <19981231165447.A2862@tar.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under Emacs 20.3.1 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG OK. THIS IS A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUNCEMENT. EVERYBODY GO GET DRUNK IMMEDIATELY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE. HAPPY NEW YEARS. Scott Barron writes: > > 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. > > -Scott > > > > 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