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From: Carolyn Wong <carolyn@kss.net.au>
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John Hasler wrote:
> 
> Carolyn Wong writes:
> > This program seems to use a lot of the memory on the linux server, and
> > the memory doesn't seem to be released at the end of execution.
> 
> Are you quite certain that this is actually what is happening?  Linux
> memory usage can be confusing.

I run 'top' to see cpu usage when running the program. The 'postmaster'
command seems to stay after my program terminates. Because the program
runs every 10 minutes, when it restarts, the mem usage for the same
command increases.

> --
> John Hasler
> john@dhh.gt.org (John Hasler)
> Dancing Horse Hill
> Elmwood, WI