Re: [TCLUG:6141] don't leave so51 open for many hours

[Bob Tanner <tanner@real-time.com>]

Quoting bob@math.umn.edu (bob@math.umn.edu):
> 
> Yes, I have had this sitting in my queue for a while.
>  
> > I left StarOffice 5.1 open on its desktop screen and when I came back 15
> > hours later, it was using all my memory (real and swap -- totaling 256M).
> > Oddly, SO51 seemed fine (pull down menus worked, but it was very slow with
> > only 2k ram. After lots of hd groaning I was able to switch desktops, get
> > to an xterm and kill it. Anyone else have this problem? Should I just
> > get in the habit of closing SO51?

I have seen the same thing with netscape communicator, so I switch to
navigator and the memory/cpu thing went away.
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