On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 18:34 +0200, gustavo halperin wrote: > Hello > > I commonly use the next applications: Mozilla, gnu-emacs, gv, xpdf and > many xterminals. > The problem is that after many days without restart the system the > memory grow a little more any day > and after aprox. 20 days I have all my 775MB occupied by the system and > even if I close all > the applications the memory occupied still the same, just reboot the > system free this memory. > My question is how release the memory that is not in use any more? > > Thank you in advance > > Gustavo Halperin > > By the way, I'm using Debian Sarge with MW Enlightenment without KDE or > Gnome
This is a bit vague. If (using top(1)), you do not see that a couple of processes are eating up all the RAM, then what you see is Linux using all unused RAM as a disk cache. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "The trouble with children is that they are not returnable." Quentin Crisp -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]