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Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)

From <tomas@tuxteam.de>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED)
Date 2015-10-23 09:40 +0200
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On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 07:26:14AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:

[...]

> Don Armstrong had also suggested checking the cache and buffers,
> which I had forgotten to do when I restarted [...]

To quote an old Linux saw (which just paraphrases many things others
have already said in this thread):

  "if your OS isn't making use of the memory you gave it, it's
   doing a bad job"

or shorter:

  "free memory is wasted memory"

:-)

regards
- -- t
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Tracking down memory leaks Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-10-13 16:30 +0200
  Re: Tracking down memory leaks The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-10-13 16:40 +0200
  Re: Tracking down memory leaks Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-10-13 17:00 +0200
    Re: Tracking down memory leaks Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-10-17 18:10 +0200
      Re: Tracking down memory leaks Don Armstrong <don@debian.org> - 2015-10-18 22:00 +0200
        Re: Tracking down memory leaks Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-10-21 07:00 +0200
          Re: Tracking down memory leaks Jörg-Volker Peetz <jvpeetz@web.de> - 2015-10-21 08:40 +0200
            Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-10-22 16:30 +0200
              Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-10-22 16:40 +0200
                Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) Cindy-Sue Causey <butterflybytes@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 19:30 +0200
                Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2015-10-23 19:40 +0200
                Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 20:10 +0200
                Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2015-10-23 20:40 +0200
                Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) Reco <recoverym4n@gmail.com> - 2015-10-23 20:20 +0200
                Browser tabs, was Re: Tracking down memory leaks David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-23 21:00 +0200
              Re: Tracking down memory leaks David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2015-10-22 17:30 +0200
                Re: Tracking down memory leaks Marc Shapiro <marcnshap@gmail.com> - 2015-10-24 08:30 +0200
              Re: Tracking down memory leaks (SOLVED) <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-10-23 09:40 +0200
        Re: Tracking down memory leaks Michael Jones <mj@mikejonesey.co.uk> - 2015-10-21 23:40 +0200
  Re: Tracking down memory leaks Michael Jones <mj@mikejonesey.co.uk> - 2015-10-21 23:30 +0200
  Re: Tracking down memory leaks Michael Jones <mj@mikejonesey.co.uk> - 2015-10-21 23:40 +0200

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