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Description of problem:
When the autocorrect feature is turned on and i right-click (to bring
up the context menu) on a red-wavy underlined misspelled word in an
oowriter document, it instantly pegs the CPU, memory and swap usage.
This continues for about 5 minutes, with heavy disk thrashing, after
which the application and the entire gnome session crashes. I noticed
a similar problem with the previous packaged version, but not as
severe, because with that version the "thinking" only lasted ~30-60
seconds, and then the application and document editing would function
normally. If this is related to some kind of a memory leak, i would
rate this as a fairly significant problem, since this is a feature
that most gui word-processing users have come to take for granted.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
openoffice.org-1.1.2-10.fc2

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open a new document in oowriter.
2.Make sure the autocorrect feature is turned on. Type in an
intentionally misspelled word, so that autocorrect puts a red, wavy
underline underneath it.
3.Right-click once on the misspelled word.
    

Actual Results:  The cpu, memory, and swap usage overloads for a
while, resulting in a complete crash of my desktop session, after
which X/gdm may or may not be able to recover. Sometimes rebooting is
necessary at this point.

Expected Results:  The context menu should come up immediately,
displaying a short list of options, including suggested spelling
corrections.

Additional info:

The machine in question has 256 Mb RAM, and a 633MHz celeron processor.

I checked on the OOo users mailing list, and a debian user recently
reported a crash bug with the spell checker in that distro-specific
package.

In the meantime, i've downloaded the most recent (1.1.3) OOo release
and will install and test with that, in the hopes of isolating or
working around this problem. Perhaps this is unique to the
Fedora-specific OOo package?