Hello again Bogi, I opened a terminal and then did an ooffice command and then opened dm200507.sxc and did a top command and minimized the document.
Root used 2.3% CPU and 11.8% of Mem in Xorg and michael used 0.8% CPU and 0.5% of Mem in top and michael used 0.3% CPU and 4.5% Mem in gnome terminal. And nothing in the above seemed to change when I closed the document and then closed ooffice. The results of the above test and the fact that I have 192 Meg RAM make it seem unlikely that RAM or lack of it is the root of my problem. Cheers Szemir, Michael ____________________________________________ Michael Walters wrote: >Hello Bogi, > >I have 192 Meg of RAM which is greater than even 128 Meg of RAM you >mentioned. And I have Libranet 3.0 running on my hard drive. > >So I think it is very unlikely that my system is crashing due to having >too little RAM. > >However, I will check out your link anyway. > >It was my brother Mel who helped me upgrade my RAM to 192 Meg. > >Thanks and Cheers, > >Michael > >_____________________________________________ >_____________________________________________ > > >bogi wrote: > > > >>Hi Michael. >> >>Check this link out. >>http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=968 >> >>Now these guys are talking 60-120 megs for a 10 meg documents, you have 96 >>megs on your system, i am sure you would have exhausted them running kde or >>gnome plus a few services, so when you run oOo it just crashes on very low >>memory. Now i have seen this behaviour on a knoppix run on a 128 Meg machine, >>oOo would just crash at startup. try to stop some services, run blackbox >>instead of kde or gnome and have a go at it, alternatively you may want to >>add some ram to your system, 96 megs is really too small even for a kde or a >>gnome. >> >>Cheers >>Szemir >> >>On July 12, 2005 13:54, Michael Walters wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Hello Mel, >>> >>>So it seems that my problem involves the failure of Open Office to >>>remove the lockfile when it shuts down, leaving a stale lockfile. >>> >>>I have a little further information on what happened to me today. >>> >>>I tried to open a file using open office gui and failed. >>> >>>I then tried several times to open an open office file using firefox. It >>>then prompted me to click on yes to open the file in open office and >>>then promptly hung. >>> >>>This happened several times, so I tried opening the file in Konqueror. >>>The first time it hung, but the second time I successfully opened the >>>file and printed it out. >>> >>>Does this give you a clue as to why my system frequently leaves stale >>>lockfiles? >>> >>>Blessings, >>> >>>Michael >>> >>>Mel Walters wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> >>>>On Monday 11 July 2005 12:28 pm, Michael Walters wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>Although I at first thought that perhaps the lock file was created when >>>>>I perhaps right clicked when I should have left clicked, when I was >>>>>careful to only click the right way, I still got lock files. >>>>> >>>>>About every other time I create a new open office spread sheet I get a >>>>>lock file. >>>>> >>>>>I just remove the lockfile and open office works again, but does anyone >>>>>know of possible reasons lockfiles might be created when I work with >>>>>open office documents? If someone could tell me what to look for in >>>>>causes of lockfiles, I might be able to fix the problem by prevention >>>>>rather than by corrections. >>>>> >>>>>Regards, >>>>> >>>>>Michael >>>>> >>>>>Michael Walters wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>>Hello All, >>>>>> >>>>>>When I open new documents in open office I sometimes get another >>>>>>lockfile. But removing the lockfile seems to free up open office again. >>>>>> >>>>>>It is a bit anoying to remove lockfiles, but at least I can edit new >>>>>>open office documents. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>[SNIP] >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>>>>The reason that is partial success is we do not know what created the >>>>>>>lockfile in the first place. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>Did I answer this already? I do not see my answer? >>>>Again: >>>> >>>>The royal WE here? I can see by your letter you do not understand what a >>>>lock file is or how it is suppose to work. >>>>Programs create lock files to keep track of things. That is normal. when a >>>>program closes down, it would normally delete the lock file (and all is >>>>well). >>>>If a program hangs up (freezes) or crashes, then the lock file (stale one) >>>>will still be there and we do not want it. This can prevent you from >>>>starting the program, as the OS thinks you are already running it. >>>> >>>>What has to be determined is, what is failing here? >>>>1/ Open Office could be going bye bye (hence a stale lock file to trip you >>>>up) or, >>>>2/ You could be trying to run ooffice twice, and the OS is complaining >>>>( this could easily go on by focus not being on ooffice but other things >>>>on your desktop covering it up) >>>> >>>>I am not saying I know what happened to you. But you may be a little lost >>>>as to the details too, since your first assumption you make could be >>>>false or true? >>>> >>>>You can figure out what is going on. Only then do you have a hope of >>>>solving your problem here. >>>> >>>>Hope this helps you Michael >>>> >>>>Mel >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
