Re: crash?

["" <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: "K. gnarup" <http://www.gmail.com/~kgnarup>
 > Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 07:28:22 -0700
 >
 > > Fine.  I tried bringing my laptop home to see if I could work on the light
 > > rail via wireless hotspots.  No go.  It takes too long to connect before
 > > moving out of range.  Oh, well.  It was suggested that I sign up with
 > > Sprint or whatnot for about $60/month for connectivity.  I don't know if
 > > it's worth it since I can easily work from home via ssh.  (Mail, as usual,
 > > is only problem.)
 > 
 > What laptop do you have?

IBM Thinkpad T43.

 > Running what?

Windows XP.

 > I have a Toshiba running XP.  I
 > typically suspend it, it does not seem to have the memory chomping
 > characteristics of XWindows.
 > 
 > I found that MacOS kernel_task also tends to grow.  Right now, it has been
 > up for 3 days, and is over 70 M RSIZE and almost 800M VM.  You noticed that?

No.  Maybe we don't push it as hard as you do.

 > However, after about an hour, Firefox is 60M RSIZE and 500M VM.

Hmmm.

 > I though Google was supposed to be wifying Mountain View.  What happened to
 > that?

I don't know.  That would be good.