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

Johnny Billquist bqt at softjar.se
Sat Oct 12 10:37:23 EDT 2013


On 2013-10-12 15:59, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> 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...

While I will not exclude memory leaks from likely problems, that is a 
problem that should be equally bad daytime, and much worse during active 
use...

	Johnny

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