At 09:51 AM 12/27/2001 +0000, you wrote: >I run Linux and W98 side by side 24hr on two machines. Linux needs >rebooting maybe once every two months, and then only because it is >clearly getting short of memory. I bet there is a Linux task I can run >to help that!
I've seen this problem of Unix slowly running out of free memory on my SGI Indy workstation running IRIX 6.2. After about 3 months, I would be out of free memory, even while not having any applications running. I attributed it to a very small memory leak. When processes were ended, I figured that not quite all of the memory was freed and over time this small unfreed memory would grow until it took over most memory. A reboot every three months for a workstation is not bad at all. Tim Swenson
