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

[Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no>]

>>>>> Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>:

> You have barely enough memory for the X server, and not nearly
> enough for X and Emacs.

Running KDE or Gnome is out, but the X server itself isn't all that
much of a hog.  And I'm using icewm as the WM, which uses only around
800k.

No problem at all running X and emacs without swapping... until I've
used Gnus to visit one of the newsgroups that makes the emacs process
size ballon.

The two big culprits, according to top, are emacs/Gnus (after visiting
one of the problem groups), and opera.

I'll try out galeon when it moves out of debian unstable, and into
testing.  But I don't really have a replacement candidate for Gnus.

I'll also try out the 2.4-series to see if the VM is more efficient.

> Either don't run X, or add memory to the machine.

This machine is just a hobby machine.  I don't know if more memory is
even available from anywhere for old DEC laptops.

In any case it is a matter of pride to make linux run faster, and work
better, than Win95 did on the same machine.  Adding memory would be
cheating.