> I've got an ongoing graph of Firefox's memory use. I've noticed that as
> it's run over the last 5.5 days (so far), the size of its swap use has
> remained about constant at around 400 MiB, but the amount of resident
> (in-RAM) use has risen from around 400 MiB to around 610 MiB. Each time
> it crashes it starts over. Apparently that represents a memory leak (I
> haven't opened 50% more tabs), but why isn't that data swapped out? Is
> there a way to allocate memory so it's never swapped out?
I have 2.5 gig now, but I haven't used any swap partition since I had only .75 gig and I haven't
seen any ill effects. With 1.0 gig of ram I loaded about 735 meg of wav files into sweep and made
one CD sized wav file to create a CD without the 2 seconds of "dead air" between cuts, without any
trouble of any discernible kind.
If you have enough RAM why would you WANT to use the much slower hard drive?
I don't open tons of tabs like some on this list, but I frequently keep one instance of 5 or 6
applications minimized while working with another one. Like: seamonkey, gimp (or imagemagic),
openoffice, gqview, ufraw, and xine . My Slackware (Ver. 12.1) is 99.9999% trouble free.
I thought (because I read it) LINUX was made so any program (even with a memory leak) that is
terminated ALL of it's allocated memory would be reclaimed by the kernel and any and all memory
leaks would be erased, nullified.
I have heard very little of memory leaks with LINUX until quite recently, mostly here.
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Ron KA4INM - I'm proud to be Chuck's pop!
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