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

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.

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!