From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [Slightly OT] Small GNU Emacs lookalike, UTF-8-able Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:43:04 +0200 Message-ID: <01c51318$Blat.v2.4$fb91b3e0@zahav.net.il> References: <42111BE1.3070506@conectiva.com.br> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1108442774 25381 80.91.229.2 (15 Feb 2005 04:46:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 04:46:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 15 05:46:14 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0ubB-0001rn-1P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:46:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0uqq-0004lB-JX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:02:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0upq-0003xw-2P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:01:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D0upo-0003xC-FN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:01:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D0upo-0003we-Bq for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 00:01:16 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.66] (helo=romy.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D0uYy-0007Qf-R6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:43:53 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (tony06-88-59.inter.net.il [80.230.88.59]) by romy.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.6-GR) with ESMTP id ANS46945 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 15 Feb 2005 06:43:51 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.4 In-reply-to: <42111BE1.3070506@conectiva.com.br> (message from Leonardo Boiko on Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:45:05 -0400) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24094 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24094 > Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 17:45:05 -0400 > From: Leonardo Boiko > > 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.