[ale] "out of memory" error and dying processes

[Geoffrey]

David S. Jackson wrote:

> That seems to be the problem.  I don't think I'm nearby when it
> happens.  At least I've never *seen* it happen before.  But I can
> track down the time it all started to about a month ago.  Hmmm.  I'm
> thinking a leak in one of the dropline gnome-compiled libraries or
> something....

run top in a cron job to get an idea of what's doing it.  Something like:

*/5 * * * * top -n1 -b >> $HOME/top.out

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