I've been conducting a little experiment over the past hour. Running OO 4.0.1 on Xubuntu 13.10, I monitored memory usage of OpenOffice. I found that as long as OpenOffice was in use, it did not fully release memory used by earlier files even though these had been closed.
I monitored total computer memory in use when OO was open at the Splash screen. The idle condition of the computer was 142 MB. Memory in use commenced at 172 MB with OO open with no file, increased to 292 MB with a text file of 58K words, reduced to 289 MB when that file was closed, then increased to 324 MB on opening a 70 slide presentation (optimised to about 4MB), reduced to 318 MB when that was closed and after OO was closed it reverted to 149 MB. Perhaps (and I only say perhaps!) this internal use of memory by OpenOffice is a factor in the reported crash/file loss problem; when OO is running 24/7, one can suspect from the above rough test that internal resources might be consumed, leading to a crash or wierd behaviour. I am aware that experienced users, as those on the dev list, will restart their computer and/or applications regularly, but inexperienced users overlook doing this. Perhaps OO memory allocation and usage should be reviewed? If someone comes up with a monitoring batch file for linux, I'm quite happy to allocate a spare machine to run this for an extended period and return the results. (Xubuntu or Ubuntu preferred, but I will install anther linux distro if needed). -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
