There's a good overview of this in the first four pages of http://www.atoptool.n...

		sciurus on March 13, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Help, Linux ate my RAM There's a good overview of this in the first four pages of http://www.atoptool.nl/download/case_leakage.pdf The rest of that document shows how to use atop to monitor per-process memory usage and identify a memory leak.