From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sampath Weerasinghe Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs for Windows Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:56:59 -0800 Message-ID: References: <75bnpd79hn.fsf@tuxproject.de> <545AB96A.8070402@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1415239051 26500 80.91.229.3 (6 Nov 2014 01:57:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 6 Nov 2014 01:57:31 +0000 (UTC) To: John Mastro , help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 06 02:57:20 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XmCK7-0007f0-4y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:57:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49418 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmCK6-0000Q3-Lm for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:57:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:51622) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmCJt-0000Py-3Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:57:09 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmCJp-0000AQ-MO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:57:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wi0-x230.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c05::230]:39267) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XmCJp-0000AL-El for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:57:01 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wi0-f176.google.com with SMTP id h11so153138wiw.9 for ; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:57:00 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type; bh=FtlQwsCib8g8hscPD7HKP703gR43bncMriAtvBPij78=; b=wO6H0vNAE69Zign823OJyoEScaf0A1ELrT9F8qZsNbvMkT4vFRz8efvFtB/p7p2Yi4 N7GV/mcRuPMzI1qsCvBAVu21KlUtHKgYkIvW1oNRC3DvQeCMTjy/rOho+r3JqKzy0iko W4DwXunUz1x39ImcxWvfVP8XYC+eJxLGHCBT/qsoPFQu017MwNyzrQXSLxvlvVeelS9C DPFImlQlbiVaPGh9KlktWOikWgwXFQxr4we+hWEtVVvn/iz2UFfW6WvOM7TmgDF4fav8 tV25yN4Y+7u4ha74oeMvO5ko4rq7f2ufP46M2pj6Ny+iuaaJ85RFs6mBbRIFr5NBUeMq n9oQ== X-Received: by 10.194.184.12 with SMTP id eq12mr1339016wjc.100.1415239019995; Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:56:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.216.109.65 with HTTP; Wed, 5 Nov 2014 17:56:59 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c05::230 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100782 Archived-At: i also had similar troubles, i downloaded emacs by googling emacs windows im using windows 8 with gui mode emacs emacs will cause so much cpu usage the entire system becomes unresposive and it would use a lot of memeory while working with very small files. often these troubles start when quickly saving/closing multiple emacs windows. so nowadays i use console mode emacs through ssh, tmux on my remote ubuntu ec2 instance. scrolling is a pain, but id rather not have a hung OS. -Sam On Wednesday, November 5, 2014, John Mastro > wrote: > Nikolay Kudryavtsev wrote: > > Hello. I've just tried both builds, and one thing I immediately noticed > > about emacsbinw64 is that it eats over 600 mb's of memory just after > load. > > Shukaev's version does not do this. > > Interesting. On my Windows 7 machine at work, the emacsbinw64 build of > 24.4 uses 29MB and change immediately after startup. Not sure what would > cause such a large difference. > > -- > john > >