ubuntu jaunty seized up

[Carl Friis-Hansen]

prad wrote:
> On Mon, 04 May 2009 12:30:34 -0600
> 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?

Memory leak is when a program doesn't release the memory it once 
acquired and thereby leaving a zombie block of memory used.  This will 
not go away before the computer is restarted.

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