[Leaplist] Memory leaks under FC6 ....

[William A. Mahaffey III]

.... I have an AMD64X2 box running FC6 x86_64, mostly stock (stock 
kernel, 2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 straight off the DVD), running XFCE desktop, 
originally chosen for its small memory footprint. The box has been up 81 
days & I have been logged in most of that time. When I do a 'free -m', I 
see:

[wam at AthlonCube, ~, 7:04:20am] 731 % free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          1943       1897         45          0         17        359
-/+ buffers/cache:       1520        422
Swap:         1983          1       1982
[wam at AthlonCube, ~, 7:06:48am] 732 %

or about 3/4 of the 2GB of onboard RAM taken :-). I have 4 desktops open 
and about a dozen rxvt (1) terminals open total, & that's it. This seems 
a bit excessive. I googled 'memory leak XFCE desktop' & found a few 
mentions, but most were dated 2004-ish or earlier & all mentioned RAM 
use growing at a few hundred KB / (hour|day), i.e. far faster than I am 
observing. They were also all (1st page or 2) for Debian or Ubuntu. Are 
there any known memory-leak problems w/ either XFCE *and* FC6, or FC6 in 
general ? TIA ....


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	William A. Mahaffey III

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