Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1998 17:44:03 -0600 (CST) From: Scott Barron <sbarron@vvm.com> To: Richard Seaman <dick@tar.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> Subject: Re: Trouble with Staroffice5.0 Message-ID: <XFMail.981231174403.sbarron@vvm.com> In-Reply-To: <19981231165447.A2862@tar.com>
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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
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