[ILUG] Macro language in Word Processors on linux ???

[Niall]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 11:27:33PM -0400, D ONeill wrote:

> StarOffice? Would like to hear Kate's opinion on this, but IIRC, it needs
> 141MB, approx 160MB to run without swap. All I've ever heard is that it runs
> well on 128MB, and that being a minimum. Good luck. I may be a newbie, but
> Im sure I'm correct on the mem issue.

Poor Star Office takes a lot of flak on this. I'm typing this on a box which
has 128M of memory. I've just turned swap off and I've top running in a
windows beside my mutt window. There are currently 88 processes running,
including mysqld, squid, apache, X, netscape with three windows open, Star
Office with two text documents and a spreadsheet open and the Gimp with two
13M image files opened. Oh - I nearly forgot xemacs :-) Current memory usage
as reported by free is:

             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:        127988     124644       3344      19196        540      23076
-/+ buffers/cache:     101028      26960
Swap:            0          0          0 


BTW when looking at this I noticed something interesting - when I add up all
the %MEM fields that top displays I get 191.7 - I presume that's the
kernel's memory overcommit coming into effect :-)

The memory used by Star Office (summing the RSS fields from top) is 77M
which is somewhat more than the actual physical memory used. So, let's give
Star Office a break on the memory usage front, OK.




Regards,


Niall  O Broin