#21 is there a memory leak

[Dan Essin]

Hello,
I'm running on an rpi3b. ncid runs great after a reboot and then after a day or so the entire system gradually slows. After a few days characters typed at the prompt take up to a minute to echo to the screen and running anything takes forever to start.

Is there a memory leak? The only other services that are running are cups and samba plus whatever are rpi defaults.

Thanks

[Ed Attfield]

I have seen this kind of behavior when a process (like Chrome) uses up all of the memory.
I would use "top" to get the list of processes and then hit "<" four times to get it to sort on the virtual memory sizes. Look for one of the processes that gets bigger over time, which usually indicates a leak.