When I boot my computer, Taskman says that the total of memory used by kernel is about 60Mb. After I open and close some programs, Kernel memory is being occupied, increasing more and more space up to 150Mb. Ok, I know that it appear to be normal, but I would like: If, after opening and closing programs and staying with the same state of boot time, why do kernel memory don't back to the same use (about 60Mb)? So, I have to boot my computer to reestablish the low memory usage. I there some solution for this? Thanks in advance. Rogerio.

Maybe it has something to do with what is called Memory Leaks ?? Com puter Speed and Performance May Decrease In this one about SP2, List of fixes included in Windows XP Service Pack 2 do a Search for the word MEMORY. You will find several about memory leaks. All food for thought, plug up the toilet.

Doing a search at Yahoo, for Kernel Memory, I found this little blurb: Kernel memory size can be tracked using the sar -k command. The total of the "alloc" fields is the kernel memory size. If it appears to be growing without bound, you may have a memory leak. www.princeton.edu/~unix/Solaris/troubleshoot/kmastat.html