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------- Additional comments from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 17 20:05:26 -0700 2005 ------- What I can say about reproducing this problem is, get a 128MB RAM machine, run RH9, open a WindowMaker desktop in JAPANESE mode. This will use enough memory to make things dangerous (system is a bit more responsive without the Japanese input system Canna etc. running). <P> If you want to run Firefox and some other things at the same time that will also be useful. Currently for translation purposes I wuold have xpdf, OOo, wine jwpce.exe (a kanji dictionary), and firefox running. But I think the problem will come up just with Impress running and 2 powerpoint files of around 1-2 MB each, in other words a common size, and needing two open so you can copy from one and paste to the other. <P> I think there may be memory leaks which exacerbate the problem but can't tell. <P> Anyway, if you copy/paste between the impress windows and try to edit one of them (like I do, actually type lots of text into various text boxes, navigate, zoom, etc.) the program will crash! I have not seen this to be dependent at all on the file type or content. <P> My point is that if OOo explicitly must have 512MB or more RAM then you should say so. But if it is supposed to be able to run in 128MB (even if that is only maybe 5-10 MB free before the swap/thrash), then OOo should pay a lot more attention to resource issues. The program should not crash. I don't know if it already does so, but if you ask it to do an operation that it knows will crash it due to a lack of enough memory, then it should refuse, and dump the file to disk. <P> Last note is that for a long time I ran OOo on a USB1.1 hard disk. Currently I'm running off the main hard drive. Anyway I believe this does not have anything to do with it but if you want to try it this might do something for you. <P> I submit that the OOo team does not have enough people using the system on older hardware. My laptop was computer of the year when I got it, and it may be underpowered compared to current models, but this is a good situation in which you want linux and OOo to work on it and shine. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do not reply to this automatically generated notification from Issue Tracker. Please log onto the website and enter your comments. http://qa.openoffice.org/issue_handling/project_issues.html#notification --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
