SOLVED - sort of Re: Can anyone explain the delay when switching from X to console

[John Summerfield]

stan wrote:
> David Timms wrote:
>

>>
> I hadn't rebooted for a few weeks.  In the mean time I had run lots of X 
> programs and many console programs.  When I rebooted, the behavior is 
> similar to the behavior you describe above, and in comparison with the 
> previous behavior could be described as 'crisp'.  I suspect something 
> has a memory leak, and cruft is building up over time.

Seamonkey, firefox and (I think) thunderbird do.

I wonder about X.
   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
29492 summer    15   0  517m 158m  16m S    4 17.1 144:29.12 seamonkey-bin
30976 summer    15   0  338m 123m 8412 R    1 13.4 649:58.08 firefox-bin
  4328 root      15   0  590m  59m 3060 S    1  6.5 642:31.52 X

The Mozilla family can just about bring down the system when the 
oom-killer steps on the wrong things.


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