[X-Unix] Memory issues

[Alexandre Gauthier]

Kirk McElhearn wrote:

>On 10/10/04 10:22 PM, "RP McKay" <richard.mckay1 at virgin.net> wrote:
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>>Does anyone know what is causing this (better yet, a memory allocation tool
>>to display what is being held for what) or how I can control it better? I am
>>rather polite to the portable and am not running more than a few apps at a
>>time and I am not developing or compiling or such...
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>I've seen a similar memory leak in Safari. When I quit the program, my Mac
>sometimes reclaims a swap file (usually a big one too) but not always. I
>find that I need to quit Safari every day or so to keep things running
>smoothly.
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>Kirk
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Perhaps we should see some kind of memory leak in there? To be honest I 
am noticing quite similar events on my iBook... I will conduct some 
research and return the results of my investigations later. Right now I 
am not in condition to do anything too complicated besides launching 
thunderbird and replying to this list ;)

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