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Re: emacs designers neglect slower computer users?
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: emacs designers neglect slower computer users? |
Date: |
Fri, 04 Jan 2002 18:29:32 +0200 |
> From: Dan Jacobson <jidanni@deadspam.com>
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug
> Date: 04 Jan 2002 16:18:17 +0800
>
> I say it might be a good exercise to use a P166 processor with 32K
> memory like me just to find those slow spots.
FWIW, I do about half of my Emacs-related work (including development)
on just such a machine. So if it would be horribly slow, I'd be
complaining loudly. Which I ain't.
> $ top
> Mem: 31332K av, 30000K used, 1332K free, 0K shrd, 500K buff
> Swap: 255488K av, 55332K used, 200156K free 8180K
> cached
>
> PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND
> 2864 jidanni 0 0 21168 14M 2676 S 0.0 47.9 31:25 emacs
> 584 root 7 0 13064 3080 1056 S 2.6 9.8 15:35 X
> 1994 jidanni 0 0 11448 1656 1236 S 0.0 5.2 2:59 netscape-commun
An 14MB Emacs session is not a large session. My Emacs normally
levels at about 40MB, and I've heard people whose sessions routinely
take 150MB. If you want a smaller session, you should kill unused
buffers very often.