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["Christopher M. Penalver" <christopher.penalver@xxxxxxx>]

** Summary changed:

- [Upstream] Starting "Slide Show" caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients
+ Starting "Slide Show" caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin clients

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Title:
  Starting "Slide Show" caches pixmap data excessively, crashing thin
  clients

Status in The OpenOffice.org Suite:
  Confirmed
Status in “libreoffice” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “openoffice.org” package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  + Ubuntu 8.04.1 LTS
  + OpenOffice 1:2.4.1-1ubuntu2.1
  + LTSP Environment
  ----

  Working in OpenOffice Impress/Presentation is fine until starting
  "Slide Show", which caches excessive amounts of pixmap data to thin-
  client memory. This is bad because thin clients generally have very
  little amount of RAM (64-128MB is typical), and when all of the RAM is
  exhausted by something like excessive pixmap memory usage, the session
  simply crashes outright, causing data loss.

  
  Observe my pixmap usage (via 'xrestop') of ~5MB upon simply launching a 1-slide presentation file:
  ---
  3e00000    50   84    1  160   62     5495K      5K   5501K 18330 POWER POINT - OpenOffice.org Impress
  ---

  
  Now observe pixmap memory usage of ~52MB  upon launching "Slide Show -> Slide Show":
  ---
  3e00000    56  100    1  230   73    52767K      6K  52773K 18330 POWER POINT - OpenOffice.org Impress
  ---

  A Jump of more than 50MB by simply launching the presentation
  slideshow shouldn't happen. Thank you for any help on this, the
  children at my schools will thank you!

  
  Sincerely,
  Jordan/Lns

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