Memory leaks in Gnome

[Michel Klijmij]

Worik (worik at noggon.com) wrote on Fri, 05 Nov 2004 11:09:29 +1300:
> Has anybody else noticed serious memory leaks in Gnome?

No.
 
> I need to reboot my computer daily, if I neglect to log out and in to 
> Gnome, as my swap and memory go to 100% usage.

Linux memory management works a bit more complicated. Most of the memory 
that seems in use is shared with other apps, and cached. No matter how 
much memory you have, Linux will eventually use 100%. If you look at the 
output of "free" you can see how much of that is cached (ie, that is 
used if an app needs it again or freed if another app needs it).

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