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Old 07-09-2009
Corona688 Corona688 is offline
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That big honking thing leaking 40% of your RAM and counting looks like your X server. Note how its actual memory consumption is way higher than the amount still paged in(RSS), its allocating lots of memory, not using it, and having it paged out to make room for more! Try upgrading it.

(You can avoid the lines getting cut off by redirecting ps into a file or pipe, by the way.)

Last edited by Corona688; 07-09-2009 at 02:37 PM..