On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Brian Lehr wrote:
> Subject: Losing my Memory!
Wassa matter, forgot where you put it eh?
> Yes, I'm losing my memory to the big programs that I'm opening up (ie:
> many Netscape windows). That's not a problem -- that's the purpose for
> having 32 megs of ram with a 48 meg swap partition. The problem is that
> when I shut down all the programs, I don't always get all of my swap
> back.
Umm. First off notscape is quite a leaky little memory hog. ie. Until
you actually shutdown the very last netscape window, it will still be
holding that memory.
Secondly I doubt muchly if there is a memory leak in linux or X. They
are too well tested and show very little signs of that. (ie. You don't
stay up for 200+ days if you leak memory)
One thing that would be happening is having swapped various daemons
and this that and the other out, linux leaves it there. I mean, why
call it back if you're not using it? As you continue working linux
uses nearly all free memory for disk buffers. If you touch one of the
swapped progs, it will slurp it off the disk, but not until then.
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