Every time I use LibreOffice Writer, it uses too much memory and crashes. I have 8 page document with 378 words and 5 shapes filled with gradient. I didn’t have such issue with old LibreOffice, but right after I upgraded to latest version, I can’t use it anymore. It just freezes once I scroll down, even without writing anything new. Document is in .odt format.
I tried restarting laptop as well as software reinstall - it didn’t help.
From the screenshot, I bet you’re under Windows. But this doesn’t tell which “latest version” is installed. “Latest” is a relative notion depending on the OS, or rather the distribution and the reactivity of maintainers. So better to quote exactly what Tools>About Lo says.
Please, edit your question to provide additional details.
I’m on Windows 10, LibreOffice 7.3.0.3
I can create a Writer document a described and I see 297MB memory use. The high memory use might be an indication of a corrupted user profile in your installation.
Try opening the file in LO Safe Mode and checking memory: click Help > Restart in Safe mode > Continue in safe mode, open the file from there and check memory. If OK then you probably need to reset your user profile.
I prefer the manual method of closing LO, then renaming the user folder and then copying back the folders such as template, autocorrect, wordbook, etc. but not config into the new user folder created on restart of LO.
I’m using v. 6.1.3.2 x64 on Windows 7, and have the same problem. There is a BAD memory leak, and also it is a CPU hog.
I was hoping to grab the latest bits and hopefully solve the problem, but it looks like at least the memory leak still exists.
Are we sure this code does not have an embedded bitcoin miner? There is no good reason for using these kinds of resources for rendering text files or a spreadsheet.
What steps have you taken so far?
Same here with 7.4.2.3 under win11
I’ve opened a document, working on it and I constantly see used memory growing. Starts from around 200 Mb and grows until freeze and full of physically available memory.
Even simply using the window moving slider on the right makes it grow.
Recreating user profile (without config) didn’t solve the problem, but it’s interesting that this bug doesn’t occur in safe mode of LO
Such issue is most likely to happen on some corner cases, when a specific combination of elements (e.g., size of text, anchoring, positioning and size of objects) after an algorithm change result in infinite appending of pages, or something like that. So it’s completely useless to describe your documents - the only reasonable thing is to file a bug report, and attach the specific document there.
