Re: Memory leaks maybe netscape

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Thu, 30 Sep 1999, Georges-Henry PORTEFAIT wrote:
> I'm using GNOME on a SUSE  system (pentium II  Mb of RAM)
> 
> I noticed that each time I close netscape ( I.e end the application ) a bit of memory is
> no longer avalaible. Which means that even if the process is terminated the memory is kind
> of lost forever. Not quite if I end the gnome session and then leave the X server I'll get
> my memory back.
> 
> So that's why the question is in this list !!
> 
> Does that make sense to anyone ?? any idea to solve this ??
> 

This is normal, it is nothing to worry about. Linux just keeps stuff in
memory in case it needs it again; if you actually need to use that memory
then Linux will free it up again.

It's not a GNOME issue, ask on a Linux or Linux distribution mailing list
for more details...

I keep having to repeat: there is no point in looking at your memory usage
on modern Unix systems. Just do not bother. If you hear a lot of disk
activity or get noticeable slowness, then you are using enough memory to
cause swapping and slow down your system; otherwise you are not using that
much memory, and there is no reason to care how much you are using.

Looking at memory is a bad habit caused by Windows and MacOS.

Havoc