On Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 2:37 PM, Miguel Medalha <miguelmedalha at sapo.pt>wrote: > > Nevertheless, it seems to me that you should have more than 3GB of RAM >> on a 64 bit system... >> Since the width of the binary word is 64 bit in this case, 3GB >> correspond to 1.5GB on a 32 bit system... >> If you have a 64 bit system you should give it space to work properly. >> > > ... and the fact that a reboot seems to fix the problem could also point > in that direction. > That is entirely possible. It does seem to me that some sort of a resourse accumulation is indeed occurring on the system - and I hope there is a way to stop that because filesystem I/O should be a self-balancing process. Boris.