Re: Where did my memory go? 'ps' not showing me.

Aragorn wrote:

It is not clear to me what distribution you are using, but your current
kernel obviously has a serious memory leak.

It is *not* obvious that the OP's current kernel has a memory leak. The memory leak could well be with any of the applications he's running, instead of in the kernel.
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