Re: IMAP server side search integration
On Mon, Sep 05, 2005 at 19:25:43 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:03:26AM +0100, Dickon Hood wrote:
: > : ... which is how you end up with programs like Firefox, which consumes all
: > : of your RAM. I found the other day that between Firefox and its use of
the X
: > : server it had exhausted the swap space on this machine. :/
: > I've noticed this with both Mozilla and Firefox on linux and Solaris; I
: > have to reboot my home desktop every couple of months because of it.
: > Highly irritating.
: uh, yeah... If you need to reboot your system to fix the problem,
: you're doing something wrong.
I entirely agree.
: Simply killing all instances of the
: program should free up the RAM. If it doesn't, you may have a lurker
: that you missed. If you're really sure you got 'em all, try starting
: some other big program, to make sure the freed blocks get re-used by
: something else. If that still doesn't do it, your system is pretty
: screwed up. ;-)
You'd've thought so, wouldn't you. I've taken the Linux machines in
question down to single-user mode and back, and the memory's still
missing. On Solaris, not being root, I've just had to kill everything I
can, and whilst that copes marginally better, it still loses something
somewhere.
I've no idea why.
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