Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1999 13:15:53 -0800 (PST) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: Richard Seaman <dick@tar.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9812311551530.368-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org> In-Reply-To: <19981231165447.A2862@tar.com>
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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.
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Regards,
Kevin G. Eliuk
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