Re: 2.4.3 + X 4.0.2 + star office = dead box

[Rob Mahurin <robm@mad.scientist.com>]

On Tue, Apr 03, 2001 at 12:12:26PM -0400, Jeff@meta-craft.com wrote:
> not quite sure who to blame on this one, x? kernel? star office?
> 
> whenever I start up star office installer, machine bombs.
> 
> if I export my display from remote host -> troubled box and run star
> office from remote host, troubled box bombs.

I bet you're running out of memory.  StarOffice is really a hog.

Try running an xosview and watching your usage creep up.  If you're
really desperate to use StarOffice, try adding an extra swapfile as
described in mkswap(8) and swapon(8).

Rob

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