Re: killall firefox-bin

[Jan Willem Stumpel <jstumpel@planet.nl>]

I wrote:

> Just writing this down gives me an idea: maybe it is a memory 
> leak thing. Next time it happens I'll check "free". Hadn't
> thought of doing that so far..

OK. It happened again. Iceweasel totally frozen. free says:

jws@vega:~$ free
          total      used    free  shared  buffers   cached
Mem:     516128    496924   19204       0    20524   216632
-/+ buffers/cache: 259768  256360
Swap:    979924        88  979836

OK. I do killall firefox-bin. Restart iceweasel; it works fine
again. free now says:

jws@vega:~$ free
          total      used    free  shared  buffers   cached
Mem:     516128    445980   70148       0    21024   193668
-/+ buffers/cache: 231288  284840
Swap:    979924        88  979836

Not a great deal of difference I think, apart from the "Mem free"
value (but I always understood that the "free -/+ buffers/cache"
value was more important). Does this give any clues?

Regards, Jan