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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2013-10-12, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:
> 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...
>

It is and it is.

When I leave Firefox downloading something during the day while I do
something else and then come back to it a couple or so hours later I also
encounter some thrashing.

When using Firefox heavily while doing some research, I also encounter
that same problem after a period of time.

Simon.

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