https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=52433
--- Comment #24 from [email protected] --- (In reply to comment #23) > Thanks for the replies, I'll try that, but that's just half of the problem. > The other half is that the memory comspumtion skyrockets on saving files > with lot of images, is there a workaround for this? or is this another bug? Hello, Unfortunately there are two distinct problems: - OpenOffice up to 3.4.1 or LibreOffice up to 3.4.6 have a very bad management of images: you may copy / paste them in Writer, or just add an html link, but in all cases, when you save your file, the RAM used by the process "soffice" reaches very high values (I have a file with 127 images and, when I save it, the RAM used by soffice reaches some 1.4GB!). - LibreOffice, all 3.5.x, 3.6.x, 4.0.x versions, has another problem: one part of the amount of the RAM is not released after having saved; next time, RAM will increase from an higher bottom value and will reach an higher maximum value, and some part will not be released, and so on; after a few saves, Writer will crash. There is no workaround for the 1st problem (high RAM consumption), you just need to have a lot of RAM in your computer to avoid an extensive use of page swapping (that slows down your computer). I have used OpenOffice and LibreOffice on computers having just 1GB RAM, I have just to say that you have time to do plenty of things when Writer is in save mode. (Now my computer has 16GB of RAM, and it is no longer a problem!) For the memory leak, workarounds are to use OpenOffice 3.4.1, or LibreOffice 3.4.6, or, if you still want / need to use more recent versions of LibreOffice to free the RAM periodically by shutting down LibreOffice or by using an external memory management program. I still don't know when / if this bug will be corrected in LibreOffice, and I just hope that the bug will not appear in the next announced release of OpenOffice, the 4.0 (it might be there, if it is a library related bug, with a new release using an updated set of libraries). In that case, I would stay with OpenOffice 3.4.1 or even switch to MS Office 2013 ;-)! Of course, I would be very glad to use a reliable version of LibreOffice 3.6.x or 4.0.x, since it offers lots of functions, but, at this time, I can't. Best regards, M. Nallino -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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