[K12OSN] OpenOffice upgrade

Krsnendu dasa krsnendu108 at gmail.com
Mon Nov 27 21:56:17 UTC 2006


I have set terminals to use NBD swap so far it is not being used.
I used ltspinfo --host<hostname> --proc=meminfo Is there a log or something
that can show how much swap (if any) was being used over a period of time?

On 28/11/06, John Lucas <mrjohnlucas at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Monday 27 November 2006 15:41, you wrote:
> > I am running K12ltsp 5 and want to update OpenOffice.org to the latest
> > version 2.0.4 (I hope to solve Impress crashing problems that way.) What
> is
> > the recommended way to do that?
> > 1. Use yum install using the Fedora Core 6 repositories?
> > 2. Download the rpm on OpenOffice.org website and install using rpm
> -Uvih
> > *.rpm
> > Some other method?
> >
>
> This may have nothing to do with your problem, but I had problems with OOo
>
> Impress on terminals with inadequate RAM. My problem was solved by turning
> on
> NBD swap to increase effective (virtual) memory used by the X server
> running
> on the terminal. Impress was terminating whenever I tried to run the
> slideshow. I had no trouble with terminals that had 128MB and above.
>
> If you have less that 128MB on your terminals, it might be worth trying
> NBD
> swap before you upgrade, since if RAM is your problem and upgrade is
> unlikely
> to fix it.
>
> The instructions for turning on NBD swap (for LTSP v4.2) are found here:
>
>         http://wiki.ltsp.org/twiki/bin/view/Ltsp/Swap
>
> Good luck.
>
>
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