 | | | Memory Leak | Memory Leak 2003-07-28 - By Patrick A Thompson
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I agree with my much more knowledgeable colleagues - non problemo.
I like ksysguard to watch what's going on. It shows that the total used
memory
stays fairly constant near the limit of the physical memory; but you can
see
the fraction actually being used (I forget which color). And if you
launch/kill
a job that uses a big chunk of memory, this bottom band of color changes
appropriately while the "total" stays high and constant. Much more
entertaining than doing any actual work ;=>
The OS philosophy seems to be, perhaps the user is going to
run that code again sometime, so why clear it out of memory until
the space is actually really needed.
Pat
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