[rescue] SGI tidbits

[Larry Snyder]

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
> On Sunday, September 29, 2002, at 12:15 AM, Scott Newell wrote:
> >> couple of Emacs sessions can chew up lots of memory, too.  And let's 
> >> not
> >> forget that a single session of Mozilla munches 80MB on a TrueColor
> >> display.
> >
> > Who knew that rendering web pages was such a memory intensive 
> > operation?  ;-)
> >
> > But seriously, why on earth would it suck down 80MB?

On my box, about 30M of RSS is the jvm, which never seems to go away
after it has nothing left to do.  And takes the browser with it
on a kill....
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