Re: memory leaks !?

[Dwight Schauer <dschauer vcsd com>]

Why go through the trouble of resetting the machine? Just reset the guilty
apps.

Not being a user of x11amp, I can't answer your question concerning it.

But with netscape, it can be somewhat of a pain at times.
Quit netscape and then do a "killall -9 netscape"
If that does not work, then do a "ps aux | grep netscape", and just a
plain "ps aux" after that, and kill off any tasks related to netscape.

stefan parvu wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> 1.
> I am curios about one fact: sometimes it happen that my machine has all
> the memory absorbed, for instance if I am running netscape or x11amp the
> memory is easily filled up. No way after that the kernel to free the
> memory back. So the only way to do it is to reset the machine. These
> sounds like a memory leaks? Isn't so? What tools or methods can I use to
> measure them/prevent them?
>
> I do not want to recompile for instance x11amp!
>
> Please somebody could give a tip here?
>
> 2.
> In the "The Linux Edge" it is said that a microkernel is "notably slower
> than a monolithic kernel". See some real examples of implementations of
> microkernels a la QNX  ... ? Is that notable slower in real nuclear
> environment?
>
> >From my point of view a microkernel is more capable to handle hardware
> fault errors than a monolithic (Net cards ...). Using a monolithic u
> must reboot your box, using a microkernel the device manager for
> instance could be restarted and nobody is hurting about this change? So
> somebody could point me to more information about this?
>
> Rgds,
> Stef
> I like Linux since '93