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Dbuses and Apaches are using up memory

I recently noticed, in System Monitor, that multiple Apache2 processes are showing up (with the same "Command Line"). There are currently 6 of them, each with 7MB memory. I also noticed a whole bunch ...
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Free up memory dump of all the terminated processes

I think my subject is pretty spot on. I am on Ubuntu 10.04 and have the following specs in my computer: i5 Processor with 3.30GHz 16GB Memory 1TB Hard drive 1 Gigabyte on board network I am ...
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Automatically kill a process if it exceeds a given amount of RAM

I work on large-scale datasets. When testing new software, a script will sometimes sneak up on me, quickly grab all available RAM, and render my desktop unusable. I'd like a way to set a RAM limit ...
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Solution to get data from memory of a process

If I'm using Firefox and filling out a big form (with lots of text to write), and for some reason I accidentally press F5 and all my text in the forms is lost, I can use e.g. HxD on Windows to ...
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Where has all the RAM gone?

I have 1GB of RAM, and when I run NetBeans and Firefox, they get about 300MB of RAM. At some point, the system becomes very slow, probably 100 times slower than normal, switching windows (Alt+Tab) ...