Hi, [I am replying to [email protected], as requested. Hopefully, the two prior emails will be visible.]
I think you are right. When it started happening, I did crtl+alt+del. Under processes, soffice.exe is stable at 88k. On the other hand, soffice.bin varies a whole lot. When the problem first started happening again, it was at 120,000 k and then it over the course of a minute to 180,000k. It got as high as 190,000k. On the other hand, the rise didn't actually correlate with the probem. The rise only started after OpenOffice came back. And it did go back down after 20 minutes or so. Okay, hope that helps. Ross Hi Ross, OpenOffice.org uses very little java. When this problem happens again, start the taskmanager and see which process is using most of the CPU. I suspect that it may be the indexing which XP has turned on automatically. Please reply to [email protected] only -- CPH : openoffice.org contributor Maybe your question has been answered already? http://user-faq.openoffice.org
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On 9/30/06, CPHennessy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri September 29 2006 08:52, + Ross Martin wrote: > Hi, > > So I am otherwise very appreciative of your product, especially since it is > free. It is in most ways has all the features I want and they are easy to > find. The main complaint I have had is the complexity by which one adds > page numbers -- two steps are involved, first adding a footer and then > adding the page number. I wish there were one single option under "Insert" > that said "Add Page Numbers", and then had a little menu for it. > > Anyway, that's not what I am writing about. I work on a Dell Inspiron > 1200, with an Intel Celeron processor and 512 mb of RAM. I use Windows XP. > I don't know how useful that information is to you. > > Of late, something utterly terrible starts happening. The computer starts > "thinking" (the little green light turns on or flashes, and something is > loading internally). When this happens, OpenOffice shows up as "not > responding". Invariably it returns to the land of the living. Before, > this took only a little while to happen. Now it is taking longer and > longer, and is happening more frequently. Sometimes when I am typing in > Writer, brief little blips happen, such that what I have typed registers > later (it writes it all out slowly, or adds it when it comes back). Other > times, it gets started "thinking" and only comes back a minute or two > later. Only one has it actually crashed. > > This would happen in Mozilla, but for much shorter periods, and anyway, > it's gone away now. > > I don't know what the problem is. I figured that parts of the program were > in different places on my hard drive and the program had to go an access > them, so I defragmented the hard drive. Nothing. My brother told me that > XP will use a bit of RAM, then "mark" it as used (i.e., in use), and not > use it again. He said therefore that I need to restart my computer often. > This seems like a possible answer. I don't turn my computer off, and Java > is continually using RAM (I think?). I guess these problems don't happen > as much right when I turn on my computer. I'm not sure. > > Anyway, I wanted to tell you about this. It's driving me absolutely up the > wall, and I have a masters thesis to write.
