[Info-vax] Out of date defaults. Was: Re: VSI and Process Software announcement

[Dirk Munk]

Paul Sture wrote:
> On 2016-09-25, Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> wrote:
>
>>
>> I remember an Alpha 8400 cluster with a 4GB memory per system, huge in
>> those days. It didn't perform well. The cache setting as still at the
>> default 3MB (afaik), many batch jobs were set for a maximum memory usage
>> of 2.5MB. Why? Nobody knew, "I don't know, it has always been like that"
>>
>> I can give you many more examples like that, with Unix, Linux, Windows,
>> it doesn't matter. Incompetent staff that has no idea what they are
>> doing, trained to invoke scripts, not to understand what the scripts are
>> doing.
>>
>
> Another example of that, on the subject of OpenOffice settings:
>
> "For 14 years I've been telling OOo* users to open up any OOo app, go to
> Tools, Options, Memory, and then multiply any values they see in there
> by 10. Then their OOo will run like it's been greased and dropped off a
> steep hill whilst charged up with neutrinos travelling faster than the
> speed of light."
>
> <http://forums.theregister.co.uk/forum/1/2016/09/02/openoffice_retirement/#c_2962043>
>
> P.S. the location of those settings varies by OpenOffice flavour and
> host platform.  For LibreOffice on OS X/macOS they are in Preferences ->
> Memory)
>

I'm using 64 bit LibreOffice for Windows, and the only memory setting I 
can find is for the Image Cache.

It is in Tools > Options > LibreOffice > Memory.