On Jan 16, 2006, at 6:00 PM, R. D. Preston wrote:

> When the 'inactive' usage has grown to a large size, I'm seeing  
> two, or maybe
>  three, "bash" processes that have launched/running at the same  
> time as this
>  memory usage has jumped.  When these "bash" processes stop/quit  
> (on their
>  own), the memory usages drop dramatically.
>
> Could this be from [cron and/or similar] maintenance tasks I've  
> seen discussed?

Any system script with the first line

#!/bin/bash

will open bash.
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