Linux Memory Leak Problem

[Legionaire]

I am getting some major memory leaks and I have no idea what the cause is.

I've main program that I have been using is Mozilla.

I've had this problem a few times now. I am using 1 gig ram and after a few hours System Monitor shows the memory use is 990 megs even with no applications open.

Does Linux have any memory clearing utilities? Something like Cacheman for Windows which could automatically try to recover unused memory?

 

[Legionaire]

I am using Red Hat Linux, Fedora Core.

 

[LegoPiMaster]

Have you checked programs like 'top' to see where the memory is going?

$ top

vmstat might be good to, but not as detailed

PS. ive never actually heard of a memory leak in linux before, i thought that was mainly a ~BigHard problem


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