chances are the memory is being used in "buffers" or "cache" which will be freed when it is needed, it is also possible that staroffice leaves a zombine process behind, check the process list. Or use 'top' and sort by memory usage (the 'M' key) to see whats using memory.
nate On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Brian J. Stults wrote: bs7452 >When I start StarOffice it sucks up a bunch of memory, no surprise. bs7452 >Then when I close it, memory usage does not go back down to the level it bs7452 >was at before StarOffice started. I assume this means that all the bs7452 >memory is not being released back into the unallocated pool even though bs7452 >it should be. Is there a program that will take all that memory back bs7452 >and free it? I know there are countless win32 programs that do it, but bs7452 >I haven't seen one for linux. bs7452 > bs7452 >Thanks. bs7452 >-- bs7452 > bs7452 >Brian J. Stults bs7452 >Doctoral Candidate bs7452 >Department of Sociology bs7452 >University at Albany - SUNY bs7452 >Phone: (518) 442-4652 Fax: (518) 442-4936 bs7452 >Web: www.albany.edu/~bs7452 bs7452 > bs7452 > bs7452 >-- bs7452 >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null bs7452 > ----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- Vice President Network Operations http://www.firetrail.com/ Firetrail Internet Services Limited http://www.aphroland.org/ Everett, WA 425-348-7336 http://www.linuxpowered.net/ Powered By: http://comedy.aphroland.org/ Debian 2.1 Linux 2.0.36 SMP http://yahoo.aphroland.org/ -----------------------------------------[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ]-- 11:26am up 147 days, 23:27, 2 users, load average: 0.62, 0.39, 0.35
