Re: Ram memory after many days
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:34 +0200, gustavo halperin wrote:
> 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?
>
> Thank you in advance
>
> Gustavo Halperin
>
> By the way, I'm using Debian Sarge with MW Enlightenment without KDE or
> Gnome
This is a bit vague. If (using top(1)), you do not see that a
couple of processes are eating up all the RAM, then what you see
is Linux using all unused RAM as a disk cache.
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