From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Corneli Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: how much memory? Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:10:06 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1124860599 5503 80.91.229.2 (24 Aug 2005 05:16:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2005 05:16:39 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 24 07:16:37 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7nbt-0003Nm-RR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 07:15:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7nfi-00035b-4R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:19:34 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E7ndq-0002LH-Cf for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:17:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E7ndl-0002Ie-Ci for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:17:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E7ndk-0002Hm-Vb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:17:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [146.6.139.124] (helo=dell3.ma.utexas.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E7nXX-0002HF-0M for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 01:11:07 -0400 Original-Received: from lab1.ma.utexas.edu (lab1.ma.utexas.edu [128.83.133.39]) by dell3.ma.utexas.edu (8.11.0.Beta3/8.10.2) with ESMTP id j7O5A6Y12372; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:10:06 -0500 Original-Received: from jcorneli by lab1.ma.utexas.edu with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1E7nWY-0002eZ-00; Wed, 24 Aug 2005 00:10:06 -0500 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs 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:28946 Archived-At: Sorry about the potential lack of specificity of this question, but how much memory should I assume Emacs has available to it? If I'm reading files into buffers or storing them as strings or something like this, how many characters can I store before I should expect a crash or other weird behavior. I've seen the "Memory Usage" node in the elisp manual, but can you give suggestions on how to extrapolate from there to answer the above question? I realize this may depend on hardware and configuration details, but what's the general algorithm?