>This is surely impossible. It's under the control of the OS, not the program, >and any OS which didn't free memory when programs quit would crash very quickly indeed. >Maybe whatever tool you are using isn't reporting the free memory accurately> >(or at least, not reporting a useful statistic).
[EMAIL PROTECTED] local]# cat /proc/meminfo total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem: 1188331520 1123258368 65073152 0 14237696 1057882112 Swap: 271425536 9392128 262033408 No other programs seem to have the same effect (if I don't run analog the system never seems to touch even 300mb used), despite this the system does appear completely stable (even if a little sluggish!) Thanks for your help Lee +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------