Re: any tips for how to tune Gnus/emacs for low memory usage?

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> luis fernandes <elf@ee.ryerson.ca>:

>>>>> Robin S Socha <robin-dated-1007148969.21ca13@socha.net> writes:

>> http://www.students.tut.fi/~tuomov/ion/

> Ummm....more like:

> http://ratpoison.sourceforge.net/

In debian woody, it was easy to try them out:
	apt-get install ion ratpoison
installed them, and made them available as KDM alternatives.

First impression of ratpoison: I never got anything to happend with
any of the commands listed in the man page.  I eventually crashed out
of the session, and back into KDM, but with the display trashed and no
cursor, and no response from Ctrl-Alt-Fx for switching between virtual
consoles. 

I logged in from a different machine and first tried restarting KDM,
which made no difference (ie. still trashed screen, and still no
cursor, and still frozen keyboard).  I stopped KDM, but the display
was still the frozen KDM display.  I did a halt on the machine, which
cut the connection to the other machine, but didn't change the
display.  I turned the power off, and then back on, and the laptop
booted normally.

I think ratpoison is probably not for me...:-)

First impression of ion: spartan, but the commands I needed were
simple and easy to remember (F3, F12, M-k n, M-k p).  I'm running ion
right now, with an emacs, a top running in an xterm, and opera.

The advantages for me with this approach, compared to just running
emacs in a virtual console, are:
 - things look better
 - the keyboard commands to emacs work better here than in the virtual
   console 
 - I can click on a URL to have it opened in opera.  One problem here,
   is that instead of being displayed in an existing opera process,
   like it happens in icewm, a new opera process is started when I
   click on a link

Disadvantages:
 - no clock always on screen like icewm, and KDE has
 - no load indicator always on screen like icewm has