Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory problems with Gutsy and OpenOffice

2007-10-27 Thread les
Tony Arnold wrote: > Try doing a mkswap /dev/sdb5 between the swapoff and swapon commands. > This will 'reformat' the swap partition and use all available space in > the partition. > Thanks, my swap is now the size I intended. The problem with OpenOffice happens (or is most obvious perhaps) when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory problems with Gutsy and OpenOffice

2007-10-27 Thread Daniel Lamb
, or if you have the sun version of java make sure that is being used. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Douglas Campbell Sent: 27 October 2007 09:13 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory problems with Gutsy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory problems with Gutsy and OpenOffice

2007-10-27 Thread Douglas Campbell
Hi This is my first post too from someone who is generally a very satisfied convert to Ubuntu. I have not had the difficulty you experienced with OpenOffice Cal but I have encountered a problem using OpenOffice Draw on my Latitude X1. The program will not open any drawing and just goes into reco

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory problems with Gutsy and OpenOffice

2007-10-27 Thread Tony Arnold
Les, On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 00:33 +0100, les wrote: > sudo swapoff -a > sudo swapon /dev/sdb5 > sudo swapon -s > Any suggestions as to how I can get all the swap partition into use? Try doing a mkswap /dev/sdb5 between the swapoff and swapon commands. This will 'reformat' the sw

[ubuntu-uk] Memory problems with Gutsy and OpenOffice

2007-10-26 Thread les
Hello, A first post by someone who has been lurking for some time, picking up useful bits of information. I used Synaptic to upgrade from Feisty to Gutsy, and now find that OpenOffice Calc slows right down and can freeze my computer after a few minutes of use. Using System Monitor shows that m