Memory hogs XOrg, Mozilla & Evolution

[Fred]

On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 00:15, Benjamin Scott wrote:
...
>   Pretty sure we're looking at malloc() without free() more so then actual
> heap fragmentation.  In other words, memory leaks.
> 
>   I usually try to log out and back in again at least once every month or 
> two, just to make sure that any leftover stale processes and/or leaky 
> programs get cleaned up.

You're probably right, and it's what I strongly suspect.

I do run Linux at runlevel 3 and launch X by hand (startx) -- it just
occurred to me I could just create a script to restart startx once a
month or so. The only trick is that I would want it to first check for
so many hours of inactivity first. Is there a clean way to check this
from a script?

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