OpenOffice problems on Windows 2000

[sshen]

I'm experiencing what I believe is an soffice crash on document transformations. I've done a search and can't find any similar topics. If anyone can help steer me in the right direction, it would be greatly appreciated.

Environment:
Windows 2000 server
Alfresco Labs 3.1 Final
JDK 1.6_014
OpenOffice 3.1

I've tried both the OpenOffice packaged with the Windows Labs Final installer as well as a separate OpenOffice installation with modification of the ooo.exe path. soffice.exe and soffice.bin both start and run just fine until I either open a document library with approx 50-60 files or attempt to preview a large doc. At that point, I see soffice CPU & Memory usage increase for about a minute and then both processes die.

Shortly thereafter, the openoffice connection error pops up in the Alfresco terminal.

Thanks for any help!

[mikeh]

Are you able to open those documents using the OpenOffice UI on the server?

Mike

[sshen]

Yes I'm able to open the docs via the OpenOffice UI. Granted, it takes some time to finish opening as some of them are quite large; however, they do open and are displayed without any problems.

[mikeh]

Not sure then - sounds like a classic overloading of CPU/memory problem which exposes a bug somewhere in either Windows or OpenOffice.

Windows 2000 is pretty old (and no longer supported I believe) and reason why you're not able to use 2003 or 2008 server?

Mike