Hmmm...how large did you make your swap partition?
--- Jeffrey B Layton ">jeffrey.b.layton@lmco.com>
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> > From: James Kenneth
> Hogan[SMTP:">gt9297b@prism.gatech.edu]
> > Sent: Thursday, January 06, 2000 5:10 PM
> > To: ">ale@ale.org
> > Cc: ">gt9297b@prism.gatech.edu
> > Subject: Good StarOffice Gone Bad
> >
> > Hello all,
> >
> > (I do not subscribe to the ALE list, so if you
> respond, please reply
> > to me directly at ">gt9297b@prism.gatech.edu )
> >
> > I am fairly new to Linux (translation: don't
> assume that I know
> > anything!) but I am trying to do as much under
> Linux (and as little
> > under Windows) as I can. But, I am having a
> problem with StarOffice.
> >
> > I recently upgraded my BIOS (old BIOS not Y2K
> compliant) and replaced
> > my 580MB drive with an 8.4GB drive (I did a
> complete Linux reinstall
> > at this point). With the old BIOS & hard drive,
> > StarOffice started (relatively) quickly and worked
> great. Now, it
> > takes a LONG time to start StarOffice (went from
> ~30 seconds to over
> > 5 minutes just to start it). All StarOffice tasks
> are equally slow.
> > The system is constantly accessing the hard drive.
> >
> > I have a Pentium 133 with 48MB RAM and am running
> RedHat 6.0 with
> > Gnome. Everything but StarOffice seems to be
> working okay.
> >
> > Things I have tried:
> > Delete & then re-add my user account
> (necessitating a StarOffice
> > reinstall) -- Did not help.
> > At the LILO prompt, typed "linux mem=48M" and
> system boots to
> > console mode just fine, but hangs when
> starting X (after
> > typing "startx" it goes to the typical gray
> weave-pattern
> > screen, but hangs before the "Enlightenment"
> completion bar
> > comes up).
> >
> > In my newbie mind I am thinking that, since
> StarOffice is runs under
> > X, perhaps X is not using all the RAM I have. I
> don't think the BIOS
> > and new hard drive have anything to do with the
> problem.
> >
> > How do I tell how much RAM Linux thinks I have,
> and how do I change
> > it if it is wrong?
> >
> > Any other ideas for solutions?
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> >
> > Jim Hogan
> >
>
>
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Jim Williams
Software Developer, ICC/GRSoftware
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