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
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