According to Brian Lehr: While burning my CPU.
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> 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. The only way to get back to normal memory use is to reboot (can
> you say "Windows 95?" -- brrrr). Is there a way to clean out the memory
> buffers or cache so that I can reclaim it back after the programs have
> shut down?
I rather think what you are experiancing is "normal linux handeling" it
might seem funny, but linux has a magic way of allocating memory, and
reclaiming it.
Netscape is a memory "hog" but is (normaly) not a memory eater, ie, it will
free its memory when the window(s) are closed.
The memory freed is normaly written to cache and buffers not all will be
returned to the "free" state.
You will never get all the swap space back, or at least thats what i find,
there are reasons for that which i have read about, its just i cant remember
where i read it.
If your system stays up for more than 24 hours when using netscape, then
dont worry, "UNLESS" your using kernels 2.0.30<>2.0.33 which had a memory
leak, caused by routing. Which has long been removed from presant day
kernels.
BTW; dont be alarmed by the memory problem in the above kernels, it only
showed up under very rare curcumstancies, of which you quite possable could
never create on a "user" machine.
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> Brian
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Regards Richard.
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