On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Prabhat Hegde wrote: > 1). You might have seen when you run applications continuosly in > liinux & leave the system for many days, you notice that it has become > slow. Rebooting is not always the best option since you cannot afford to > break your program execution/current work. This is because memory > fragmentation happens. So you find lesser & lesser contigous chunks of > memory. Contiguous memory is hardly ever needed in the 2.6 kernel, so this is most likely not your problem. -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
