Programs don't free memory

[JK]

On Sat, 7 Jan 2006 23:51:09 +0200
  Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2006-01-07 20:51, Nguyen Danh Hieu <ndh.21march at gmail.com> wrote:
>>   Hi everybody
>>   Sorry for my bad English but I have a question.I have 512Mb memory 
>>on my
>> PC but as I realize at starting my system have about 100Mb active 
>>memory,
>> but when the system have worked for a while there is no free memory 
>>on my
>> system ( about 350Mb inactive) As I understand this means some 
>>programs (
>> like kdeinit) don't want to free memory after workes. Is this true? 
>>How can
>> I fix th??s problem out?
> 
> "free memory is memory wasted".
> 
>For a better, more lengthy and more detailed explanation of this, 
>please
> see the excellent article of Matt Dillon that describes ``virtual 
>memory''
> and how it works in FreeBSD:

LOL

I've we've always said

''virtual memory is free memory!''   ;-)