Hello John, On Thu, 3 Nov 2011 08:17:18 -0500 "John J. Boyer" <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have two systems running Centos. Some applications seem to have memory > leaks. The amount of free lmemory decreases when the systems run for > long periods. Is there a way to reclaim leaked memory without rebooting? > First of all, note that the amount of free memory reported by top/htop/etc. is not too reliable. If you still want to reclaim leaked memory, then this leaked memory is owned by certain processes[Leaks]. You can find out which processes are consuming a lot of memory using htop - http://htop.sourceforge.net/ - and kill them (either from withing htop using the "F9" key or using the "kill", or "pkill" commands from the command-line.). Best regards, Shlomi Fish [Leaks] - unless there's a bug in the Linux kernel, which is quite unlikely. > Thanks, > John > -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ "Star Trek: We, the Living Dead" - http://shlom.in/st-wtld When Chuck Norris uses Gentoo, “emerge kde” finishes in under a minute. A computer cannot afford to keep Chuck waiting for too long. Please reply to list if it's a mailing list post - http://shlom.in/reply . _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list