Eric G. Miller wrote:
Do you have Java and/or Shockwave? Big memory hogs IMHO, and buggy too. But, rebooting hardly seems necessary. Probably nothing "slay" couldn't solve, and possibly just logging out of X would be enough...
I am a java programmer, however, I only started experienceing this memory leak when I switched from KDE 2.2.2 to KDE3, and upgraded X to branden's packages.