Re: Problem with emacs
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:22:57AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2009-04-18 09:25 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > You probably need more memory.
>
> Probably not.
>
> > EMACS has long been expanded to "Eight Megabytes And Still Swapping"
> > back from when eight megabytes of RAM was a gargantuan amount.
>
> The memory footprint of Emacs has not grown so much since these days. A
> freshly started Emacs (GTK version) needs ~ 15 Megabyte, my current
> session is at 41 Megabyte due to the Gnus overhead.
Just tried a fresh copy of gedit (without any files). RSS size is 19892.
The virtual memory size is a whooping 227,768 (Though probably most of
it is unused over-commits)
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