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Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)



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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 07:26:14AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:

[...]

> Don Armstrong had also suggested checking the cache and buffers,
> which I had forgotten to do when I restarted [...]

To quote an old Linux saw (which just paraphrases many things others
have already said in this thread):

  "if your OS isn't making use of the memory you gave it, it's
   doing a bad job"

or shorter:

  "free memory is wasted memory"

:-)

regards
- -- t
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