Re: [Slightly OT] Small GNU Emacs lookalike, UTF-8-able

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:45:05 -0400
> From: Leonardo Boiko <leoboiko@conectiva.com.br>
> 
> I'm running Emacs CVS for better Unicode support.  Other possible causes 
> of memory consumption are the use of Japanese fonts, old X 3 (it's the 
> only one that runs with my video card), a hardware problem, and some 
> weird behavior of NetBSD.  I suspect Emacs (blasphemy!).
> 
> Is someone else running CVS GNU Emacs in a system with 24MiB or less of
> RAM?

Could we perhaps move from suspicion and guesses to some quantitative
analysis?  Like, for example, what is the memory footprint of Emacs
on your machine when it starts paging?

I used to run Emacs on a 16-MB machine (no longer have that now), and
I don't recollect anything similar to the disaster you describe.