Hello Bogi, I have 192 Meg of RAM which is greater than even 128 Meg of RAM you mentioned. And I have Libranet 3.0 running on my hard drive.
So I think it is very unlikely that my system is crashing due to having too little RAM. However, I will check out your link anyway. It was my brother Mel who helped me upgrade my RAM to 192 Meg. Thanks and Cheers, Michael _____________________________________________ _____________________________________________ bogi wrote: >Hi Michael. > >Check this link out. >http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=968 > >Now these guys are talking 60-120 megs for a 10 meg documents, you have 96 >megs on your system, i am sure you would have exhausted them running kde or >gnome plus a few services, so when you run oOo it just crashes on very low >memory. Now i have seen this behaviour on a knoppix run on a 128 Meg machine, >oOo would just crash at startup. try to stop some services, run blackbox >instead of kde or gnome and have a go at it, alternatively you may want to >add some ram to your system, 96 megs is really too small even for a kde or a >gnome. > >Cheers >Szemir > >On July 12, 2005 13:54, Michael Walters wrote: > > >>Hello Mel, >> >>So it seems that my problem involves the failure of Open Office to >>remove the lockfile when it shuts down, leaving a stale lockfile. >> >>I have a little further information on what happened to me today. >> >>I tried to open a file using open office gui and failed. >> >>I then tried several times to open an open office file using firefox. It >>then prompted me to click on yes to open the file in open office and >>then promptly hung. >> >>This happened several times, so I tried opening the file in Konqueror. >>The first time it hung, but the second time I successfully opened the >>file and printed it out. >> >>Does this give you a clue as to why my system frequently leaves stale >>lockfiles? >> >>Blessings, >> >>Michael >> >>Mel Walters wrote: >> >> >>>On Monday 11 July 2005 12:28 pm, Michael Walters wrote: >>> >>> >>>>Although I at first thought that perhaps the lock file was created when >>>>I perhaps right clicked when I should have left clicked, when I was >>>>careful to only click the right way, I still got lock files. >>>> >>>>About every other time I create a new open office spread sheet I get a >>>>lock file. >>>> >>>>I just remove the lockfile and open office works again, but does anyone >>>>know of possible reasons lockfiles might be created when I work with >>>>open office documents? If someone could tell me what to look for in >>>>causes of lockfiles, I might be able to fix the problem by prevention >>>>rather than by corrections. >>>> >>>>Regards, >>>> >>>>Michael >>>> >>>>Michael Walters wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Hello All, >>>>> >>>>>When I open new documents in open office I sometimes get another >>>>>lockfile. But removing the lockfile seems to free up open office again. >>>>> >>>>>It is a bit anoying to remove lockfiles, but at least I can edit new >>>>>open office documents. >>>>> >>>>> >>>[SNIP] >>> >>> >>> >>>>>>The reason that is partial success is we do not know what created the >>>>>>lockfile in the first place. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>Did I answer this already? I do not see my answer? >>>Again: >>> >>>The royal WE here? I can see by your letter you do not understand what a >>>lock file is or how it is suppose to work. >>>Programs create lock files to keep track of things. That is normal. when a >>>program closes down, it would normally delete the lock file (and all is >>>well). >>>If a program hangs up (freezes) or crashes, then the lock file (stale one) >>>will still be there and we do not want it. This can prevent you from >>>starting the program, as the OS thinks you are already running it. >>> >>>What has to be determined is, what is failing here? >>>1/ Open Office could be going bye bye (hence a stale lock file to trip you >>>up) or, >>>2/ You could be trying to run ooffice twice, and the OS is complaining >>>( this could easily go on by focus not being on ooffice but other things >>>on your desktop covering it up) >>> >>>I am not saying I know what happened to you. But you may be a little lost >>>as to the details too, since your first assumption you make could be >>>false or true? >>> >>>You can figure out what is going on. Only then do you have a hope of >>>solving your problem here. >>> >>>Hope this helps you Michael >>> >>>Mel Walters >>> >>> >>> >>>--------------------------------------------- >>> _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
