Hello Szemir, Mel, and all, I haved opened open office documents by the command ooffice and then selecting the document using the GUI a number of times. One of the times it froze I noticed a sig 11 error that I would not have noticed if I had just used GUI actions.
I hope this helps, Regards, Michael ______________________________________________ ___________________________________________ ________________________________________ Michael Walters wrote: >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
