ubuntu jaunty seized up

[Rashkae]

Carl Friis-Hansen wrote:

> 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.
> 

Not quite, the memory used by a memory leak will be released when the
offending process is terminated.  A zombie process that can't be
terminated is another, more serious problem.