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Re: Problem with emacs



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.

Sven


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