From: Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>
Subject: Re: any tips for how to tune Gnus/emacs for low memory usage?
Date: 26 Nov 2001 22:29:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3k7wchoxi.fsf@peorth.gweep.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pu65xkj0.fsf@bang.priv.no>
* Steinar Bang <sb@dod.no> on Mon, 26 Nov 2001
| 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.
If you -did- run Emacs and Gnus on the same machine with Windows 95, it
would thrash greatly. Believe me. I wrote pop3.el on a Windows 95
notebook, a 50MHz 486 with 12MB physical memory. That was about five years
ago, before Gnus got big :).
If you -really- want to trim it down that badly, fall back to Emacs 19 or
XEmacs 20 compiled without any features. That should get your Emacs
footprint down to around 10-15MB. Course, you won't have all the new
stuff, but it -is- the new stuff that is gobbling up memory.
--
Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> \ If Happy Fun Ball begins to smoke, get
Minion of Nathan - Nathan says Hi! \ away immediately. Seek shelter and cover
PGP Key: at a key server near you! \ head.
That and five bucks will get you a small coffee at Starbucks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-27 3:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-11-25 19:55 Steinar Bang
2001-11-26 4:21 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-11-26 21:57 ` Steinar Bang
2001-11-26 22:45 ` Karl Kleinpaste
2001-11-27 3:29 ` Stainless Steel Rat [this message]
2001-11-27 12:38 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-11-27 14:11 ` news
2001-11-27 14:27 ` luis fernandes
2001-11-27 16:24 ` news
2001-11-27 16:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-27 20:28 ` news
2001-11-27 19:13 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-11-27 19:30 ` luis fernandes
2001-11-27 19:37 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-11-27 20:06 ` luis fernandes
2001-11-27 21:50 ` news
2001-11-28 23:02 ` Steinar Bang
2001-11-29 8:33 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-11-29 14:30 ` news
2001-12-01 9:59 ` Steinar Bang
2001-11-27 19:40 ` Paul Jarc
2001-11-30 23:19 ` Kevin Ryde
2001-11-30 13:51 ` news
2001-11-30 16:58 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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