Re: Memory leakage

[Antonio Rodriguez <arodriguez@worldnet.att.net>]

kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
> on Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 06:34:09AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez (arodriguez@worldnet.att.net) wrote:
> > In a case of permanent memory loss (hard disk), w/o apparent reason,
> 
> "Memory loss" and "hard disk" don't make sense.

Memory in the sense of storage space, in the hard disk.
 
> Are you talking about memory (RAM) issues, or have you lost data or
> partitions on you hard drive?
> Did you delete an open file?  If you delete a file while another program
> is writing to it, the space is not reallocated until the writing process
> is terminated.  In this case, you may be able to locate the open process
> with:
> 
>   - lsof
>   - ps
> 
> If lsof shows the process, you can kill it.  Otherwise, switching to
> single user mode, or as a last resort, rebooting the system, may reset
> things.

rebooting did not fix it. That was the first thing I did.