soffice.bin memory usage

banjoman · General User Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 26

I have noticed that soffice.bin is using well over 40K of my computer memory when I check processes in Task Manager

it is usually the process using by far ( typically by a factor of over x10) the most memory and that is when I have no Open Office application running!

if I exit the quick starter this process disappears, but it is back after running an Open Office app

I have been checking Task Manager because my computer is steadily slowing up and my little knowledge of how computers run tells me that processes using memory can create bottlenecks and slow things down

surely this amount of memory usage when no Open Office app is being used is rather extravagent and not necessary?

AndrewZ · Posted: Wed Mar 30, 2005 1:56 pm Post subject: Re: soffice.bin memory usage

banjoman · General User Joined: 03 Feb 2004 Posts: 26

I am running ver2 beta, which I think is a really good set of progs, my question is to do with the memory use of the soffice.bin

I mean 40,000K, please excuse my lack of technical knowledge

on my system this compares with about 20,000 for other applications such as Firefox and MS word when they are running

I don't really know if 40,000 is a lot or not, but it is the highest use of memory in my system, and that is when no Open Office app is actually running

AndrewZ · Posted: Thu Mar 31, 2005 9:06 am Post subject:

soffice.bin is OpenOffice.org, and 40,000k is a rather large amount.

When OpenOffice.org does not appear to be written, its quickstart still is running by default on Windows systems. You can see it as a blue/white icon in the system tray next to the clock.

The quick start system is designed to make OOo load quicker by loading some parts preemptively.

You can turn off the quick start by right clicking on the quick start icon. You have the choice of removing it just for now (exit) or forever ("load... during start up").

rhimbo · General User Joined: 16 Oct 2005 Posts: 12

Hi,

I've had the same problems. I'm on Windows 2000, using soffice 1.9.125. I see 2 (yes, TWO) soffice.exe processes in TaskManager, and one soffice.bin process.

Upon system startup, my disk is going crazy, chattering so hard I think it's going to come off its mounts. My cpu utilization is anywhere from 30% to 65%. soffice is NOT open, I am not doing anything with it.

Eventually, the disk quiets down and cpu utilization goes back down to 1% (when I'm doing nothing else -- no other applications running). But I still see 2 soffice.exe processes and the single soffice.bin process.

The steady state (after the disk activity subsides) shows the following in TaskManager:

TomD22 · Newbie Joined: 02 Nov 2005 Posts: 1

I have version two, and the memory usage has not been improved as someone above said. I signed up up to this forum just now to try to find out why on earth open office is using such an astonishing amount of my RAM.

soffice.bin is using very nearly 50mb of my RAM, even when i have no OO programs actually running. This is all just for a quickstarter! (which is pathetic anyway, the OO programs take much longer than their MS counterparts to open). So i thought there must be a problem with mine, a bug of some sort. But it seems from reading this thead that it's supposed to consume this much resources.

It is, as someone above said, by far the biggest resources drain on my computer until i do something like open loads of IE windows, or play a game or something. And this is just for the quickstarter of a word processor.

Well, rant over. It's free, so i'm hardly in a position to complain. Oh well.

taylormc · Power User Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Posts: 56

When you say 50MB of your RAM, I wonder what figure you're looking at?
In Windows Task Manager, the amount of *physical* RAM used is given by the "Mem Usage" column. The "VM size" column (which is where *I* see a figure of about 50MB) describes the amount of *virtual* memory used by the process - most of this is paged out onto disk at any given moment. My "Mem Usage" figure for the process is under 7MB when idle.
Add up all the figures in the "VM Size" column, and you'll probably end up with a figure greater than the total amount of RAM in your PC.

Edited to add:
The above is a little misleading, but doesn't detract from my main point. The 50MB figure is actually for "private bytes", which is the amount of virtual memory (not real memory) owned by the process and which is not sharable with other processes (e.g. DLLs would be sharable). The actual total virtual size of soffice.bin is nearer 300MB. but most of this is sharable.

agira · Newbie Joined: 10 Nov 2009 Posts: 1

Hello,

I am programmer then i ok with technical knowledge, memory for me not problem, in my any working PC is 4GB RAM and 2Ghz Intel Dual Core CPU's...

When Open Office not runned, but after some work with OO Database i get my PC slowdown, what is serious, Windows Vista Resource Monitor shows then started process:

soffice.bin , it run 18 threads! and averange cpu usage of this process all the time is 48,90%! <<< When OpenOffice not runned!

Then memory usage at present moment is 72MB.