Hi debs. I get this weird behaviour: boot, xdm, login as me. In xterm: pon and run netscape to check on the mail. switch to vt1, login as root, to do some maintenance. I move some stuff around, clean up a bit. All this takes maybe an hour. Now, when I switch back to vt7, I notice things are slightly slower than usual and there's a little disk activity. Suspicious me (the box hardly ever starts swapping w/ 128 Mb), switch back to vt1, run top, and almost all the memory is being used by something. I can't tell what, the ram-use for the various processes don't give me much hint. I know there's a memory-leak in netscape, so I turn off netscape. Frees about 4 Mb. Restart fvwm: frees up a tiny bit. Ctrl-alt-bckspc on X: frees tiny bit. Still a ram-use of above 115 Mb!?. When fresh-booted, this system only uses ~35Mb... Two questions: 1: What's going on? 2: I don't want to reboot to free the ram, and I don't feel like spending money on even more ram. How do I fix this strange condition? The box is a Compaq PII350/128MbRAM, running Slink with 2.2.14 kernel (no fancy stuff in kernel except for apm). 65 Mb swap. Sorry for this long post, I'm only trying to be specific ;-) Best Regards Vitux
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