Open Office - Spell checker hangs

I'm running Fedora Core 3 - Gnome Desktop. - Open Office 1.1.2. (OO)

The Problem:

Whenever I try to right click on a word to fix the spelling of a word, Open Office hangs. It will hang and hang and the mouse won't move too fast. If I am lucky I can click on another window and the probelm will eventually *go away*. If I wait for a three minutes (I timed it), It will eventually come up with a list that I can pick from. Every time I spell a word wrong though, I have to go through this process and it's very time consuming.

Solutions:

Well, I guess the fool proof solution would be to not spell any words wrong, right? What I am wondering is if anybody else experiences this problem, if there is an alternative to Open Office (though I really like OO). If there is a solution out there, does anybody know it?

Try Abiword if you want. It's (IMHO) lighter and faster if all you need is a word processor. OOo is a nice office suite, however, and should be fixable. :wink:

Can you post the output of 'free' when you are running OOo? It sounds as if you may be swapping or somesuch. Also post the output of 'hdparm /dev/hda', replacing hda with the hard drive of your Linux partitions. 8)