Re: Ram memory after many days
gustavo halperin <ggh.develop@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello
>
> I commonly use the next applications: Mozilla, gnu-emacs, gv, xpdf
> and many xterminals. The problem is that after many days without
> restart the system the memory grow a little more any day and after
> aprox. 20 days I have all my 775MB occupied by the system and even if
> I close all the applications the memory occupied still the same, just
> reboot the system free this memory.
> My question is how release the memory that is not in use any more?
I have similar problems, and I know it isn't used by the buffers and
cache as others have already suggested. I have to exit from
X-windows, so it appears that X has some major memory leaks. My
system seems to lose about 50MB/day, so that means I have to restart
X-windows every couple of weeks before I fill up RAM and swap.
Does anybody else have any suggestions on how to trace those memory
leaks without rebuilding the entire system from source? I have
already tried 'xrestop', but it doesn't appear to be the applications,
so it must be at the server or library level. I use similar
applications as the original writer, except I use Firefox instead of
Mozilla, and I use wmaker without gnome or KDE.
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Carl Johnson carlj@peak.org
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