memory leak in 2.4.17

[Net Llama]

--- Shawn Tayler <stayler at gbis.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 09:10:58 -0800 (PST), Net Llama wrote:
> 
> >I don't see anything here that sounds like a kernel problem.  Its
> just
> >KDE being the memory pig that it has always been.  If there truly was
> a
> >kernel memory leak, then killing any of those apps would have no
> >positive effect on memory usage.
> 
> Tried playing with a couple systems today and I can never quite get
> the swap file back to zero once it used.  The 
> physical memory also never goes quite back to where it should either.

This is the normal & expected behavior under Linux.

> 
> Some more testing is in order I think.

Only if you want to reproduce what others have proven years ago.

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