Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

On 02/08/2026 02:32, c186282 wrote:
> On 8/1/26 07:53, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> The Natural Philosopher wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):
>>
>>> On 31/07/2026 17:54, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>> Why would I, when it takes about ten seconds to boot?
>>>>
>>>> Cleans out the kruft 🙂
>>>
>>> I generally find closing Firefox does that on mine
>>>
>>> It is a memory hog.
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>> Otoh, the always-on mini PC would use up all the RAM and the
>> swap and then go nuts trying to clean it up.
>>
>> Finally traced it to picom (compositor). It's got major memory
>> leaks. Restarting it would clean out gigabtyes worth.
>>
>> I got tired of doing it manually (or forgetting to do it), so made
>> a cron job that runs at 2 AM.
>>
>> Why do I put up with picom? I find it helpful in my workflow.
> 
>    IF you can afford it, pick a time of day and
>    just use crontab to reboot the unit maybe once
>    a week. That'll clean out the crud.
> 
The funny thing is that this desktop does not have memory leaks but runs 
the same firefox as the laptop, which does...

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