Thanks! When you talk about OOo being too heavy for your Win98 system, what do you mean? Was the system just too slow for it, or did it have to spend a lot of time reading/writing swap memory to/from the drive?
Hal On Sep 3, 2010, at 9:33 AM, Gurus Knugum wrote: > Den 2010-09-03 15:10:30 skrev Hal Vaughan <[email protected]>: > >> Doesn't anyone here have any experience or background on using OOo with as >> small a system as possible or with small systems? >> >> >> >> Hal >> >> >> On Aug 31, 2010, at 10:21 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: >> >>> When OpenOffice states that 512 MB is a minimum requirement for operation >>> and that 1 GB is preferable, just what does that mean? >>> >>> For example, if I'm running Linux and have a 512 MB system, a certain >>> amount will be taken up by the desktop environment and other background >>> tasks. So does it mean OOo needs 512 MB to itself, or that it should find >>> enough of what it needs on a 512 MB system? > > I don't know, but I just tried to open a somewhat complex OpenOffice.org Calc > file and started a macro that opens dialogues and things like that, and it > seems like it use about 84 MiB. Maybe you want to open several complex > documents and if so the occupied memory will of course increase. My > OpenOffice.org Calc file has a few spreadsheets, one of them has about 2000 > rows and 20-30 columns and another one also has about 2000 rows but not as > many columns. Most of the cells contains cell forumlas. > > I had an old Windows 98 machine a couple of years ago, and I remember that > OpenOffice.org 2 was way too heavy for it. The machine was a 450 MHz 320 MiB > computer bought in early 1999. > > Right now I have a 1,6 GHz dual core laptop with 2 GiB of memory, bought in > december 2006, and it runs OpenOffice.org just fine, but that's hardly > surprising. > > I'm sorry that I can't give you more exact information than this, but > hopefully it's a hint anyway. > > > -- > Kind regards > > Johnny Rosenberg > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
