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SGI Internal Memo: IRIX 5.1 40% slower than 4.0 (1993)

https://www.seriss.com/people/erco/sgi-irix-bloat-document.txt

by arexxbifs • 2 years ago

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9659• 2 years ago

History repeats itself. Note the agonizing over memory. They were targeting a 16 MB machine.

We have the same problem. Ever try running linux on a 4GB machine? It naturally desires 16 GB nowdays.

1oooqooq• 2 years ago

Linux is fine with lower ram. but it will obviously use more for caching.

and nobody truly bought sgi machines with 16mb ram. not even pizza boxes.

kristianp• 2 years ago

And example of bloat from the memo:

The news reader "xrn", starts out small, but leaks memory so badly that within a week or so it grows to 9 or 10 megabytes, along with plenty of other large programs.

Amazing that 10MB is tiny by today's standards and that was reached only through a memory leak!

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