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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
>
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