[ale] freeing memoryRe: [ale] freeing memory

[cfowler]

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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>
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>
>
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