Divexo

Is there a way to dump the memory without restarting the computer? Or even a script, got some programs that work for the most part, but after running for about 2 weeks will pop up with out of memory errors. Would like to just have a script or something run that willl dump the memory.

Yummy

At least in my circles, when someone says "dump the memory" they're getting a readout of everything in memory, or saving it to disk.

I'll assume that's not what you're looking for, and that you're trying to free up memory eaten by other programs. There isn't really a good way to do this, or a good reason imo; but none the less, Iarsn TaskInfo has an option that will temporarily gobble up all your memory forcing other things to get paged out or activate garbage collection which can net you some free physical ram to run some other task quickly, but everything else that was running is going to be slow for a bit when you try and use them again. These days I just tell everyone to get more ram and use a 64-bit OS, too many idiot devs out there developing bloatware.. 100MB video driver downloads are pure win!

Also, I'm sure about 20% of the people on this forum could write you a quick
for(;;) malloc()
app that would do the same thing; it should go well with all your other spyware, trojans and lolcats 'stealing all ur memoriez'.

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Divexo

Well, it is a classroom enviroment on a completely closed domain. Students are Auto-logged in and cannot use any devices such as USBs ect, profiles are set that they only have certain permissions for that classroom enviroment....So no 'viruses', though there are smart enough people to pull it off. The problem is, the guy who wrote the program is gone and there is no blue print..lol..The systems stay on perpetually unless we reboot them because the school is open 24 hours. It seeems that after exactly 2 weeks this happens. I think the program is writing but not over-writing, creating a huge "file" in memory or something. Rebooting the system right now is the only way i know how to put off the problem. Rebooting is bad though for the 24/7 classroom. cost about 8k$ a day per student and 30 minutes for a complete classroom reboot is out of the question.