[ale] freeing memory

[James P. Kinney III]

Hmm. I like my way better. It leaves most of my stuff up and running.
Except Mozilla. 

That page does come up in Netscrape. The entire page is one gigantic
javascript applet. What a waste of coding talent.

And it's still ugly.

On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 22:09, cfowler wrote:
> Here is another way.
> 
> >From the system console type 'init 1' wait till you get a shell prompt then go
> back to 'init 5'.  If that does not work, as a  *last* resort, type 'init 6' 
> That is guaranteed to clean up that memory.
> 
> On 12/31/1969, "James P. Kinney III" <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 
> >I just found a great way to free up cached ram.
> >
> >1. Start Mozilla
> >2. enter www.norton.com in the url bar and hit enter
> >3. wait about 30 seconds while Mozilla churns on the garbage that
> >symantecs site spews and sucks up all the available ram while pushing to
> >old cache stuff off the pile.
> >4. kill -9 mozilla-bin
> >
> >Ram usage dropped from 99-100% down to 36% on a 512 MB system
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