cruft left behind by poorly written programs wouldn't affect your use of RAM (a zombie program eating up memory would though). ill-programmed..uh..programs that left behind cruft might make your disks read/write slower (since they'd have to hop around to empty disk space since the cruft is taking up a lot of other disk space it perhaps shouldn't. Consider running a disk defragmentation now that you've gotten rid of old stuff that was taking up room for no reason. (although disk defrags are not really very necessary on most current systems, once in a long while is still a good idea).
To debug the charter software (ie, conclusively prove that's the problem or not) the easy way: disable it or remove it. If the problem goes away, reinstall/re-enable. If the problem comes back, you've got hard proof and can call them up.
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Date: 2008-06-03 01:51 am (UTC)To debug the charter software (ie, conclusively prove that's the problem or not) the easy way: disable it or remove it. If the problem goes away, reinstall/re-enable. If the problem comes back, you've got hard proof and can call them up.