From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: emacs and osx Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 20:29:28 -0400 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <87sm16qxs9.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <_D97e.1227972$35.44954684@news4.tin.it> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115045634 22720 80.91.229.2 (2 May 2005 14:53:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 May 2005 14:53:54 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 02 16:53:52 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DScHk-0000w3-To for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 16:52:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DScOf-0006qG-VY for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 May 2005 10:59:45 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!wns13feed!worldnet.att.net!207.35.177.252!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:y6VYeCKct3u4qcrnY4lsI73jZgY= Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.118.90 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1114993770 67.71.118.90 (Sun, 01 May 2005 20:29:30 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 01 May 2005 20:29:30 EDT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu comp.emacs:88757 gnu.emacs.help:130591 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:26164 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:26164 > with. And while Emacs may be a memory hog, *everything* on OS X is. The > average freeware menubar clock eats as much memory as Emacs. Be careful to measure the RSS rather than the VSIZE when measuring the memory use. VSIZE can be completely meaningless since most of that memory may be shared via many other processes, or may be allocated but unused, ... Yes, OS X eats memory like a pig and (worse) is pretty bad at swapping (I often get it to freeze for a whole 1min or more just because I launched too many processes at the same time: GNU/Linux handles it much more gracefully), but Emacs is not particularly frugal either. Stefan