I had the same problem for a while on my machine when I was using KDE2.1, 
never could figure out what was causing it, but top would pull up dozens of 
'kdeinit' processes. I never did fix it, as I was only trying out kde2 to see 
what it was like, and when I went into Gnome, the problem went away.
That may not be much help, but I guess it does say that it's not an isolated 
incedent, and probably related to KDE2.1.
-Todd

On Wednesday 11 April 2001 13:49, you wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> 	Here a simple one (ha, ha, ha).  I reboot my machine, boot into X (4.0.3).
> I log in and KDE 2.1 shows up.  I pull up Eterm and type top.  It's using
>
> Initial Logon:
> Mem:   384136K av,   68104K used,  316032K free,       0K shrd,    2268K
> buff Swap:  530104K av,       0K used,  530104K free                  
> 34472Kcached
>
> 2 hrs later
> Mem:   384136K av,  133620K used,  250516K free,       0K shrd,    4640K
> buff Swap:  530104K av,       0K used,  530104K free                  
> 60572Kcached
>
> 2 days later
> Mem:   384136K av,  374572K used,    9564K free,       0K shrd,    1396K
> buff Swap:  530104K av,     108K used,  529996K free               
> 138140Kcached
>
> How do you begin to really track this memory consuption down.  Keep in mind
> I am using this machine and I need to continue to use this.  Oddly, I never
> seem to used my swap, even if I'm doing some heavy computing (CAE design
> drawing)
>
> All suggestions welcome.  It looks like something isn't properly releasing
> the memory...  How can I track this..
>
> Thanks