Lo, on Sunday, July 29, Damon Muller did write: > Quoth Osamu Aoki, > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2001 at 04:48:05PM +1000, Damon Muller wrote: > > > Hi gang, > > > > > > I foolishly left Opera 5 overnight last night. It seems that it leaks > > > memory like a sieve, as when I woke up this morning, I had only about > > > 50M of my 512M of RAM free. This is after a reboot last night (installed > > > 2.4.7-ac2), which pretty much nothing else running. > > > > Did you set lilo.conf right before reboot? > > > > append="mem=512M" > > Sorry, perhaps I was unclear. > > Linux sees the memory, but some unknown, unseen application seems to > have gobbled it all up, and I want it back.
Killing that application should do the trick. I couldn't tell from your ps dump exactly which process has grabbed all the memory. To find this out, run top, then hit M (must be uppercase!) to sort your processes by memory usage. Then start killing the offending ones. Richard
