Re: Emacs has hard time with big text files
On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 03:21:16PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> >But why is so much memory used in the first place?
Memory is not problem in this case. Even that I have little RAM for
todays standard (192M on PII) I rarely see any swap used.
Where are the times when one leader in computer industry stated that
640K of RAM should be enough for anyone? :)
What do you guys use all that gigabytes of RAM for?
(except for games - never enough RAM or CPU power for that!)
> symptoms. Even if swap is being used, it may not
> be the cause of his symptoms.
The problem was that I have settings to activate flyspell mode when
opening text file. As soon as I deactivated flyspell mode emacs become
responsive again. But it was hard to figure that out!
Thank you for your effort. It was not sure if emacs has some issues
with big files or it was me. As it turn out it was my configuration.
Just for curious bellow is what top say on freshly rebooted system.
Martin
top - 09:41:59 up 18 min, 1 user, load average: 0.36, 0.29, 0.19
Tasks: 66 total, 2 running, 64 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 99.3%us, 0.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 0.0%id, 0.0%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.0%si, 0.0%st
Mem: 192004k total, 188492k used, 3512k free, 5712k buffers
Swap: 262136k total, 0k used, 262136k free, 96232k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND
2626 boza 25 0 61544 55m 3096 R 98.7 29.5 1:41.56 emacs
2715 boza 15 0 2224 1112 860 R 1.0 0.6 0:00.19 top
2194 root 15 0 28940 7840 4736 S 0.3 4.1 0:03.30 Xorg
2616 boza 15 0 9180 3032 2212 S 0.3 1.6 0:01.10 xterm
1 root 15 0 1944 648 556 S 0.0 0.3 0:03.05 init
2 root RT 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
3 root 39 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
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