On Jan 16, 2006, at 7:14 PM, Lee Larson wrote: > On Jan 16, 2006, at 6:00 PM, R. D. Preston wrote: > >> When the 'inactive' usage has grown to a large size, I'm seeing >> two, or maybe >> three, "bash" processes that have launched/running at the same >> time as this >> memory usage has jumped. When these "bash" processes stop/quit >> (on their >> own), the memory usages drop dramatically. >> >> Could this be from [cron and/or similar] maintenance tasks I've >> seen discussed? > > Any system script with the first line > > #!/bin/bash > > will open bash.
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