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> ps -eo pid,\%mem,size,vsize,rss,resident,cmd --sort=size ->  5234 55.2
> 3226844 3549680 3193108 - emacs --maximize

Wow, is that 3GB of RSS?
Are you doing anything with this Emacs which could justify using more
than a couple hundred MBs?


        Stefan