Hi, >Try running an xosview and watching your usage creep up. If you're >really desperate to use StarOffice, try adding an extra swapfile as >described in mkswap(8) and swapon(8).
Same problem for me. I only have 8Mb memory and 30Mb swap. vmstat shows the swapping (very!) slowly increasing, with heavy disk activity. X applications run relatively fast, so it seems to come from StarOffice. I wonder why the entire swapping space is not exploited faster. Probably, this is exactly the problem with expcessive paging - but I'm certainly not a specialist. Gerd