Clear the computer's memory?

[Daniel Carrera]

Bry Melvin wrote:
> Intall Microsoft Windows

I'd rather keep the problems I have today :)  I haven't used Windows in 
9 years and I'm not going to start now.

> all joking aside. although there ARE some serious leaks in Mozilla 
> Firefox etc. when you close them it mostly goes away and does not 
> necessitate user action.

:(

> Linux is built somewhat fom the point of view that unused memory is 
> wasted memory.

Hmmm... I remember that now from my first Linux/Unix class, though not 
all the details. I think that Linux tries to guess what I might need 
next and puts it in memory. Is that right?

Is there a way to find out how much memory is actually in use by some 
application instead of Linux guessing what I might need?

Cheers,
Daniel.
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