Re: Tracking down memory leaks
Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52:
<snip>
> Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I
> can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a single console
> running. Top will show itself and bash, nothing else, but free can show over
> 2GB used. If I then reboot, free will show only about 250 MB used. Obviously
> something was tying up nearly 2 GB and it took a reboot to free it up.
>
> Marc
>
Which version of free you are using?
Where does it show 2 GB?
Do the 2 GB comprise buffered and cached data?
Please, show the the output of free.
--
Regards,
jvp.
Reply to: