[NBLUG/talk] memory leak question

[Jack Smith]

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Kyle Rankin <kyle at nblug.org> wrote:

>
>
> Now, if you do have an application with a memory leak (Firefox and pidgin
> have been a culprit in the past) top should show that over time it
> continues to consume more and more RAM, but when you restart the
> application it uses a substantial amount less. Now apps do often need more
> RAM as they are running (ie. for Firefox it needs more RAM for each tab
> you
> open) so it can be somewhat difficult to identify memory leaks sometimes.
>

Firefox was the worst app for me.  With multiple tabs open I'd have to
restart it every few days and bounce the system about once a week.  Firefox
beta is *much* better.

-- 
Jack Smith

English doesn't borrow from other languages -- English follows other
languages down dark alleys and takes what it wants.
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