From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40545 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: any tips for how to tune Gnus/emacs for low memory usage? Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:57:39 +0100 Organization: Denizens of Doom, Norway Chapter Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <87pu65xkj0.fsf@bang.priv.no> References: <87snb2tyku.fsf@bang.priv.no> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176079 1512 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:54:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:54:39 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20058 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2001 21:59:54 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 26 Nov 2001 21:59:54 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10]) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 168TmK-00035w-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:59:04 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:58:49 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id PAA21753 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 15:58:37 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 20049 invoked by alias); 26 Nov 2001 21:58:44 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20044 invoked from network); 26 Nov 2001 21:58:43 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 26 Nov 2001 21:58:43 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 168TxL-0000VN-00 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 23:10:27 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 29 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c96s55h3.upc.chello.no Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1006812627 1944 213.46.211.96 (26 Nov 2001 22:10:27 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 26 Nov 2001 22:10:27 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40545 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40545 >>>>> Stainless Steel Rat : > 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.