this has been gone into for ever..but what you are veiwing _Might_ have to do with the cache use by linux. I don't think it is a "memory leak" (this ain't your win 95 box)
On Monday 03 December 2001 04:08, you wrote: > I think my KDE has a memory leak, although I've not been able to find any > info on the possibility at kde.org. When I first turn on the computer, KDE > is using about 80MB, just now it was using 250MB (ouch!). I got those two > numbers from gtop. The memory usage builds up slowly over time. > > I just shutdown kde and looked at my memory with top, and despite all the > kde processes being gone the memory usage didn't drop by much at all. At > runlevel 3 with X/kde shutdown, and nothing but top being ran by me > directly, I had about 70MB free of my 384MB of memory. That just doesn't > sound right. I thought I left memory fragmenting behind with the Macintosh > :) > > Now, coming back into kde, kde is using about 150MB. A big improvement over > 250MB, but still more than it seems like it should be using. > > I am using kde 2.2.1. I had 2.2.2 briefly installed and noted it did the > same thing. > > Searching the net doesn't turn up much. It seems people think Linux handles > memory ok :) > > I think I will start using gnome or iceWM for a while and see if I notice > the same thing happening. > > Matt > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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