From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40550 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stainless Steel Rat Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: any tips for how to tune Gnus/emacs for low memory usage? Date: 26 Nov 2001 22:29:13 -0500 Organization: The Happy Fun Ball Brigade Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87snb2tyku.fsf@bang.priv.no> <87pu65xkj0.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 1035176083 1524 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:54:43 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:54:43 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 28232 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 03:29:43 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 03:29:43 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 168Yw5-00045j-00; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:29:30 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:29:14 -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 VAA22848 for ; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 21:29:04 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 28228 invoked by alias); 27 Nov 2001 03:29:14 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 28223 invoked from network); 27 Nov 2001 03:29:14 -0000 Original-Received: from h0060978d8c91.ne.mediaone.net (HELO peorth.gweep.net) (ghimzt@24.218.202.161) by gnus.org with SMTP; 27 Nov 2001 03:29:14 -0000 Original-Received: (from ratinox@localhost) by peorth.gweep.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fAR3TD101936; Mon, 26 Nov 2001 22:29:13 -0500 Original-To: "(ding)" X-Attribution: Rat In-Reply-To: <87pu65xkj0.fsf@bang.priv.no> Original-Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40550 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40550 * Steinar Bang 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 \ 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.