Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread The Wanderer
On 2015-10-23 at 14:06, Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 23 October 2015 18:20:10 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > >> For people in my cognitive (disability type) > > [earlier] > >> 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. >> Again. lol =) > > You claim to have cognitive disability

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread Reco
Hi. On Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:20:10 -0400 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol =) It's possible with iceweasel/firefox. The trick is that firefox 'cheats' and does not load inactive tabs. So, open some tabs, close Firefox. Rins

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Friday 23 October 2015 18:20:10 Cindy-Sue Causey wrote: > For people in my cognitive > (disability type) [earlier] > 4 open windows with ~350 tabs open between them on 1GB memory. Again. lol > =) You claim to have cognitive disability, yet you can keep track of ~350 tabs??? I can't _see_ ~350

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread Nicolas George
Le duodi 2 brumaire, an CCXXIV, Cindy-Sue Causey a écrit : > Your statement left me confused so I just bypassed it (but kept it > and Tomas' in mind). Five seconds later I entered that full command > into a search engine. For others likewise confused but less bold about > speaking up, this is o

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread Cindy-Sue Causey
On 10/22/15, Nicolas George wrote: > Le primidi 1er brumaire, an CCXXIV, Marc Shapiro a écrit : >> Google was my friend and showed me how to free up that memory ('free && >> sync >> && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free' as root) and all is now >> good >> with the world. > > I hope you real

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-23 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 07:26:14AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] > Don Armstrong had also suggested checking the cache and buffers, > which I had forgotten to do when I restarted [...] To quote an old Linux saw (which just paraphrases many things

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-22 Thread Nicolas George
Le primidi 1er brumaire, an CCXXIV, Marc Shapiro a écrit : > Google was my friend and showed me how to free up that memory ('free && sync > && echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches && free' as root) and all is now good > with the world. I hope you realize this is only useful for debugging purposes. T

Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

2015-10-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
On 10/20/2015 11:33 PM, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote on 10/21/2015 06:52: Something is not freeing up memory. It may, or may not be Firefox, but... I can exit all programs and all instances of X, leaving only a single console running. Top will show itself and bash, nothing els