On Tuesday 04 January 2005 03:16 am, Sam Watkins wrote: > > climbed to unbearable. Further, even if I close > > all programs and leave the computer on, the memory > > usage doesn't drop to what it was when I logged > > in. How can I trace what software is sucking my > > memory? > > It's probably the X server. I agree. Every once in a while I have to kill the X server to get back resources. I am running kde3.3 on debian sid. it is annoying. (I have a gig of ram and many windows open all the time and after a while it gets unbearrably slow and i kill X and restart it and then all is ok.... Any alternatives? Mitchell > > Try running "top" or "ps aux | less" and look for which process has > large numbers under "RSS" or something like that. What is the output of > "free"? Are you out of swap, or just RAM?
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