> I think you have a process somewhere with a memory hole: allocating memory > and forgetting to free it later. I don't know if it is possible for the > process to die without freeing the memory :-? > > top > [M] > > usually shows it.
I'm beginning to think the same. I can't nail it down though. I rebooted 3 days ago. Since then swap partition usage is slowly edging upward. Immediately after a reboot, and with all the regular services and applications running and the machine sitting at idle, roughly 1.2Gb of the 2.0Gb of RAM was allocated/used, and swap was at 0 of 4Gb. As I used the machine for my "normal" desktop use... so using Firefox, Thunderbird, Opera, Seamonkey, Smart, Skype, Ekiga, X-Plane, etc, the swap partition is up to 670/4095. Slowly... over time it fills up, and is not being released. This is only recently... say in the last month or so. I can't nail it down to what I updated recently that is doing this. C. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
