Shriram Krishnamurthi <shriram@cs.rice.edu> wrote:
+---------------
| Remember this?
| 
|   IRIX went up from 4.8 megabytes to 8.1 megabytes, and has a memory
|   leak that causes it to grow.  Within a week, my newly-booted 5.1
|   IRIX was larger than 13.8 megabytes -- a big chunk of a 16 megabyte
|   system. It's wrong to require our users to reboot every week.
| 
| (Now at http://bigbang.stanford.edu/~parkb/computers/sgi-story .)
+---------------

Just for the record: That was indeed an *internal* memo that leaked out
*without* the author's intention or permission, and it is so far out of
date at this point that continuing to publish it verges on the libelous.

I run Irix 5.3 on my desktop system, and it's up for several months at
a time (well, for however it is between power outages!) with no signs
of leakage...


-Rob

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