Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-04 Thread meta
I think so, check all the service u run. I just use 128Mb, never got like what u got. I monitor my memory used by gkrellm and open bluefish, opera, netscape, xmms, yahoo messenger, prozilla download manager, audio galaxy satellite, and still works fine, with not that much of using memory as u di

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Ed Tharp wrote: > well now... i guess it depends on your dafinition (spelled the way i wanted) > of what is a memory leak. i would have bet that was abiword "cacheing" the > documentsand I have noticed the same behaivior with Adobe Photoshop. it does > make "re-opening" the same file somewhat quic

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
On Monday 03 December 2001 15:47, you wrote: > > As I understand it a leak is returned to the OS after the program > > finishes. The problem with leaks is they can cause problems while the > > program is running. > > There were problems with different versions of windows, where the memory > was NO

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Richard Wenninger wrote: > yes.. but when that process terminates... the memory should be returned to > the system, right? in which case... the OS never lost track of it. Maybe there are different levels of memory leak? In many cases after you shut down a Windows program which continued to use

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Richard Wenninger
yes.. but when that process terminates... the memory should be returned to the system, right? in which case... the OS never lost track of it. On Monday 03 December 2001 12:59 pm, you wrote: > On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: > > Ed Tharp wrote: > > > this has been gone into for

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
On Monday 03 December 2001 12:17 pm, you wrote: > Ed Tharp wrote: > > 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) > > I don't think there is anything inherent in

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Randy Kramer
Ed Tharp wrote: > 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) I don't think there is anything inherent in Linux which will prevent memory leaks -- it comes down to c

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Matt Greer
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

Re: [newbie] memory: leaks and fragmentations

2001-12-03 Thread Ed Tharp
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 >