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 memory usage climbs to
about 95% (of 512 Mb) whereupon things grind to halt with the hard drive
running continuously. I had previously noticed that System Monitor
reported the swap size as 7.8 Mb, whereas I thought I had a swap
partition of something like 512 Mb, but I never bothered much about this
as there did not seem to be any problems when I was using Feisty - I
thought that maybe it was being reported wrongly. However, GParted
showed that the swap partition was only indeed about 8 Mb, and so I
increased it to about 512 Mb. However, the swap size still appears to be
only 8 Mb after re-booting and using
sudo swapoff -a
sudo swapon /dev/sdb5
sudo swapon -s
Any suggestions as to how I can get all the swap partition into use?
Also, has anyone else had similar problems with OpenOffice and Gutsy? I
have used Google to try to find out about this, but although there are
some problems being reported, none of them seem to be related to mine.
So far I have re-installed OpenOffice Calc without any improvement, but
have still to try re-installing the whole OpenOffice suite.
One other problem with the upgrade was that VMplayer no longer worked -
I had to uninstall it and download the latest version from the VMware
website to get it working again.
Les.
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