On Monday 03 December 2001 03:08 am, you wrote: > 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 > :)
Well I got one answer to this. Linux purposely grabs free memory to use for disk write caching and the like. So the fact that my memory is nearly full despite most everything being shutdown is not really a concern. I'm still curious about KDE, though. Matt _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
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