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

[(Chris Beggy ) news@kippona.com]

Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:

> On the Ion list, some patches have been circulating which allow you

I compiled, installed, evaluated and took a look at the
output of ls -l and size for some of the small window managers:

     size     name         comment
--------------------------------------------------------------------
      17232  aewm*         simple, few knobs, plug-ins for menus
    1293351  blackbox*     not really small, coffemaker
     187976  fvwm2*        supports mouseless
     119812  fvwm95*       supports mouseless
      18968  heliwm*       couldn't get it to launch an xterm, my bad
      66496  larswm*       tiling, good mouseless, documentation
      23668  lwm*          simple
      57819  ratpoison*    max screen use, emacs-like, good mouseless
     127332  twm*          classic
      29436  w9wm*         virtual screens, not mouseless
     165757  wm2*          excellent aesthetics, not mouseless
     672256  wmx*          wm2 aesthetics, virtuals, good mouseless

   text	   data	    bss	    dec	    hex	filename
------------------------------------------------
  14241	    572	    132	  14945	   3a61	aewm
 160897	  26996	    336	 188229	  2df45	blackbox
 178635	   4456	  12096	 195187	  2fa73	fvwm2
 112149	   3024	   2916	 118089	  1cd49	fvwm95
  16187	    584	    436	  17207	   4337	heliwm
  62936	    736	  11844	  75516	  126fc	larswm
  20160	    832	    152	  21144	   5298	lwm
  33919	   1216	    448	  35583	   8aff	ratpoison
 118911	   5080	  82484	 206475	  3268b	twm
  24615	   2304	    348	  27267	   6a83	w9wm
  61977	  13068	    432	  75477	  126d5	wm2
  92111	  14720	    188	 107019	  1a20b	wmx

I don't understand why wm2 is so large, given that its feature
set is similar to aewm or lwm.

I'm interested in making best use of a small laptop screen,
mouseless navigation, freeing up resources for emacs :-)

Chris