ubuntu jaunty seized up

[prad]

On Mon, 04 May 2009 12:30:34 -0600
"Karl F. Larsen" <klarsen1 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Observe top is just below Xorg and above compiz.real. This is a lot
> of use of both RAM and CPU time for a simple program.
>
i find it is fluctuating a fair bit, but always at the low end of the
list with cpu=.3 mem=.3 most of the time though the cpu occasionally
goes up to .7, may be when it samples?

what exactly is a memory leak and its effect?
does it mean a program is using memory that hasn't been allocated to it?
or is it that a program is losing info and has to keep going back to
get it from the hd?
if the former, wouldn't that explain to some extent why memory usage
shows up as being high?


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