Freeing up lost memory
Hi gang,
I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks
memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had only about
50M of my 512M of RAM free. This is after a reboot last night (installed
2.4.7-ac2), which pretty much nothing else running.
Anyway, I'm wondering if there is any way to get the RAM back without a
reboot. While a reboot wouldn't kill me, know if it's possible may be
able to help me (or someone else) in the future.
I tried shutting pretty much everything down, and it didn't seem to help
significantly. Even resorting to "telinit 1", which left only the
following processes running:
USER PID %CPU %MEM VSZ RSS TTY STAT START TIME COMMAND
root 1 0.0 0.0 1252 456 ? S Jul28 0:04 init [
root 2 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? Z Jul28 0:00 [kpnpbios
<defunct>]
root 3 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jul28 0:00 [keventd]
root 4 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SWN Jul28 0:00
[ksoftirqd_CPU0]
root 5 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jul28 0:02 [kswapd]
root 6 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jul28 0:00
[kreclaimd]
root 7 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jul28 0:00 [bdflush]
root 8 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jul28 0:04
[kupdated]
root 9 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jul28 0:00
[scsi_eh_0]
root 10 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? SW Jul28 0:00
[kreiserfsd]
root 17557 0.0 0.0 1252 472 tty1 S 16:36 0:00 init [
root 17558 0.0 0.2 2368 1436 tty1 S 16:36 0:00 bash
root 17571 0.0 0.2 3272 1468 tty1 R 16:37 0:00 ps auxw
But still, all my precious RAM is nowhere to be seen:
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 513464 359332 154132 0 6332 131384
-/+ buffers/cache: 221616 291848
Swap: 264996 5192 259804
Now, maybe this is something not worth worring about, but I really am
curious as to where it's all going.
cheers,
damon
PS. I'm tracking testing, if it's relevant.
--
Damon Muller :: Department of Criminology :: University of Melbourne
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay, wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to myself?
-- Richard III
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