I use Libreoffice to write a thesis and it frequently freezes, i. e. it turns dark for a couple of seconds, then I can continue to write. The document is 150 pages by now and only 188MB in size. I am on zesty on an Asus zenbook with 4 cores and 8 GB RAM. This only happens in libreoffice. Even Firefox which has a carnivorous appetite for resources doesn't have this behavior. I found other posts with the same problem but no solution.
Any ideas?
Best Peter
Ubuntu – Libreoffice frequently freezes
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Best Answer
I did three things:
Under Tools > Options > View I increased memory for LibreOffice from 20 to 200 MB (have 4 GB on the machine) and memory per object from 5 to 50 MB
Under Tools > Options > View I turned off hardware acceleration and anti-aliasing. Reasoning that there may be a bug where it runs algorithms that depend on acceleration and the machine did not have it.
Under Tools > Options > Advanced I turned off the Java virtual machine. I could not find any Java VM on the machine so I thought it best.
For the last 24 hours under quite heavy use have not had a repeat of the problem.