Re: Not Much LINUX Stuff of Late

The Natural Philosopher wrote this screed in ALL-CAPS (fixed):

> 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.

    >>> I got tired of doing it manually (or forgetting to do it), so made
    >>> a cron job that runs at 2 AM.
 
Don't need to reboot.

> 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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