[Leaplist] Memory leaks under FC6 ....

[Kyle Gonzales]

William,

What exactly is using the memory?  Run top and sort by memory usage
(done by pressing 'M' in top).  That should tell you what processes
are eating memory.  Do you run Firefox?  If so, do you regularly keep
it open?  It can eat alot of memory with caching.

On Nov 11, 2007 8:15 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:
>
> .... 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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