memory leak

[Alan Chandler]

On Sunday 26 April 2009, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sunday 26 April 2009 04:09:52 am Alan Chandler wrote:
> > How can I find what is using swap, to get a clue as to what it is.
>
>     In a command window:
>
> ps auwx | sort --key=6 -r -n | head
>
>     That will give you output similar to this:
> {grey at igbuntu:~} ps auwx | sort --key=6 -r -n| head
> grey      6937  1.3 23.8 311972 121752 ?       SNl  Apr25   6:06
> kmail grey      3825 25.7 21.4 393116 109176 ?       Sl   Apr25


kmail heads my current list too, but I have noticed the swap size has 
actually halved.  The only change I made was to switch mythtv's front 
end from OpenGL back to QT as the rendering engine.  So I am wondering 
if that is the source of the problem, and its some form of X related 
problem.



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Alan Chandler
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