On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I seem to be having a memory leak on my system, and I'm not sure how to > find out which program it is. Does anyone have any ideas/suggestions > on how to find it?
First, try "free" to see how much you have, and especially, how much is being used for buffers. I ran a system for 3 months and had to reboot from what I think is buffers taking up so much space (although that makes no sense to me, and I'm sure to get a followup saying that I'm wrong). The worst problem was the buffers taking up enough space to prevent me from allocating dma buffers for my sound card. Next, check "ps aux" and see what is taking up lots of memory. Kill the offending program and see how that improves memory. I'm anxious to try a 2.1 kernel to see if memory handling has improved much, especially those dma buffers. HTH, Brandon
