Hi there, On Die, 2003-06-24 at 04:13, Erik Steffl wrote: > >>What precisely happens when you "run out of memory"? Also, what > >>version of Debian are you running. > > > > > > the normal scenario is i leave my computer running at night and then i > > come down in the morning and find applications (usually the big boys, > > evolution, opera) to be gone. i check top and find i have roughly 4M of > > memory left (no swap is left). i reboot and start over. sometimes i will > > do not reboot. try to figure out who uses a lot of memory. use e.g. > top or some other program (lavaps:-) to see which program uses most memory. > > also, when you boot set up top to run in batch mode and redirect it > to file (man top), that way you can see what happened over time (some > offenders might not be running anymore).
If you've figured out who's eating up your RAM, you could try to prove your suspicion by running memprof or valgrind (both are apt-gettable). HTH, Igor -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]