memory consumption and processes

[Alex Tibbles <alex_tibbles@yahoo.co.uk>]

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Please excuse me if this is off-topic - it is a query as to whether observed 
behaviour is a bug (I could spot nothing similar in the buglist 
bugs.debian.org/openoffice.org).

Whenever I open OpenOffice.org (tested opening an .xls file, simply running 
Writer and Calc) it creates 8 processes, each consuming 35m of memory. Only 
one uses a non-trivial amount of CPU time (and only 3 non-zero). Is this 
normal? Is there anything I can do about it?

I run unstable.
Here is output of top:
  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  Command
  645 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:03.54 soffice.bin
  692 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:00.00 soffice.bin
  693 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:00.01 soffice.bin
  694 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:00.00 soffice.bin
  695 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:00.00 soffice.bin
  700 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:00.00 soffice.bin
  701 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:00.00 soffice.bin
  702 alex       9   0 36644  35m  29m S  0.0 30.7   0:00.01 soffice.bin


thanks in advance.

alex
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