[KLUG Members] Memory dump?

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On Wed, 2003-12-10 at 21:50, Adam Williams wrote:
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> > I have the same issue
> > I am running RH9 with the KDE desktop I have 368mg of RAM and I run KDE
> > system gaurd to monitor the system and the memory just keeps increasing
> > like thier is a leak or that it is not being released back to the system
> 
> "free" memory will eventually decline to zero; this is normal healthy
> system behaviour.  Only paging activity indicates memory exhaustion.
> 
> > after a program is closed it gets to the point were programs wont even
> > open anymore and I have to reboot this usually takes about 8 days 
> 
> Do you log out and back in, or is this one continual session?
> 

I am new to Linux please what is paging activity?
Logging out and back in.