> 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.