With iTerm.app, getting a message that "your system ran out of application memory" is a reason for me to stick to the Terminal.app.
It's a 96 GiB of RAM machine, for chrissake! That ought to be enough for everybody!
It's a 96 GiB of RAM machine, for chrissake! That ought to be enough for everybody!
The parent ran out of memory with iTerm not because of the infinite scrolling buffer but because of iTerm having memory leaks. The memory leaks in iTerm used to be a big issue, and it appears they still have not fully fixed. Other terminal apps can swell up to over 1Gb of the RSS, yet they do not crash. Provided there is sufficient RAM available, the inifinte scrolling can prove to be benefecial.