On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 10:22:57AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-04-18 09:25 +0200, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > You probably need more memory. > > Probably not. > > > EMACS has long been expanded to "Eight Megabytes And Still Swapping" > > back from when eight megabytes of RAM was a gargantuan amount. > > The memory footprint of Emacs has not grown so much since these days. A > freshly started Emacs (GTK version) needs ~ 15 Megabyte, my current > session is at 41 Megabyte due to the Gnus overhead.
Just tried a fresh copy of gedit (without any files). RSS size is 19892. The virtual memory size is a whooping 227,768 (Though probably most of it is unused over-commits) -- Tzafrir Cohen | tzaf...@jabber.org | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's tzaf...@cohens.org.il | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org