recapture unallocated memory

["Brian J. Stults" <bs7452@csc.albany.edu>]

When I start StarOffice it sucks up a bunch of memory, no surprise. 
Then when I close it, memory usage does not go back down to the level it
was at before StarOffice started.  I assume this means that all the
memory is not being released back into the unallocated pool even though
it should be.  Is there a program that will take all that memory back
and free it?  I know there are countless win32 programs that do it, but
I haven't seen one for linux.

Thanks.
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Brian J. Stults
Doctoral Candidate
Department of Sociology
University at Albany - SUNY
Phone: (518) 442-4652  Fax: (518) 442-4936
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