On 2/17/03 10:00, Jerry Yeager wrote

>I can understand that.
>
>Try this one for getting 'lost memory' back
>
>top
>sudo du -sx /
>
>The disk will whirl for a while, then you will see the 'free memory' 
>rise (sometimes a lot if you have had a memory leak).
>

Worked as advertised, and I ended up with more free memory. What does it 
du (hehehe)? When I looked at the man page (translation: 'man' is the 
manual for unix, so typing 'man du' gives the help page), it stated that 
it displayed disk usage statistics. So... why would it free up memory?

Bill


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