[Info-vax] Running Alpha VMS under the ES40 emulator

Scott Dorsey kludge at panix.com
Sat Oct 12 09:59:44 EDT 2013


Johnny Billquist  <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
>On 2013-10-12 14:18, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> No, the real problem is that Firefox has become a bloated monstrosity. :-)
>> Running top or ps -axl while using Firefox can be very revealing.
>
>That is also a problem, but it's a separate one.
>
>It is very telling when the problem appears "after leaving the machine 
>running for the night". That should tell you that something happened 
>during the night...

You mean like some application, like perhaps Firefox or Gnome, with a
memory leak problem has somehow grown in size over the night to the point
where it has allocated too much memory for the system to run properly?

Remember, you can't say "Irix" without saying "Memory Leak."  Err... I
mean Firefox...
--scott


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