On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:53:59PM +0200, Rhialto wrote: > it had grown to some 950 megabyte, has the same effect. Note that the > process size claims to be 0 (SIZE) while lots of "stuff" is apparently > still resident (RSS), which seems like a rather odd condition. How does vmstat -s output change during that "exit period"? Martin