OpenOffice (and others) memory usage...

[Efthym]

On Sun, 05 Dec 2004 19:23:10 -0500, Craig <cs007fc at wowway.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-12-05 at 18:04 -0600, Satish Balay wrote:
>> On Sun, 5 Dec 2004, Peter Arremann wrote:
>>
>> > Can you do me a favor? Exit OO, restart it, then open a new document.
>> > Look at the memory usage. Then go type a random mispelled word and  
>> right click
>> > on it. Once the dialog has popped open, check the memory usage  
>> again...
>>
>> Just reporting the 'used' memory (-buffers/cache) reported by 'free'
>>
>> Before OO starts                   : 155812
>> After starting OO with a foo.doc   : 188388
>> % ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soff
>> soffice.bin      192372 66100
>>
>> After 'type a random mispelled word and right click' (I had to trying a
>> few times at which point CPU usage was 100% for a few sec) : 615164
>> % ps -eo"comm,vsize,rss" | grep soff
>> soffice.bin      619132 493692
>>
>> After stopping OO                   : 162528
>>
>> - Ok - looks like OO is hogging memory. Perhaps a bug in OO?
>>
>> Satish
>
> I would agree, just used tried to right-click on an unknown word in one
> of my existing docs, which is several pages long, and OO locked up my
> system for 5 minutes. When I tried to recreate the same event and track
> its memory usage, it locked up the system good and tight. I couldn't do
> anything except move the mouse, couldn't reboot X, change to terminal
> (Ctrl-Alt-Fx) or anything else except a hardware reboot of the system.
>
> Craig

Just to say that this happens on FC2 as well,
openoffice.org-1.1.2-11.4.fc2

Regards

Efthym