I have another data point for this bug, which hopefully isn't a red- herring.
I see that when I experience a crash, when running atop the SWP line is highlighted red. As I understand it, this means that I have tried to overcommit the virtual memory available. I have been experimenting with swap space to see if this helps, and so far I am doing OK. The two things I have tried: adding an extra 1GB swap (I have 2GB real memory); reducing the swappiness setting. I used the procedures described in https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq Who knows if swappiness does anything really, but I can see that having more swap space will prevent me hitting a fundamental memory limit when I'm running a bucket load of apps, VMs, etc. Perhaps the OOo error is just a failed memory allocation, which might explain why it always seems to happen under high load, especially when swapping between apps. Evolution seems to do the same thing sometimes, which makes me wonder if I was just over-extending the resources, and the errors just didn't bother to tell me this. I'll keep you posted. -- OpenOffice crashes with high frequency https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/579966 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
