From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 20 21: 7:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A166737B424 for ; Sun, 20 May 2001 21:07:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Received: from hades.hell.gr (patr530-b115.otenet.gr [195.167.121.243]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f4L47iO25160; Mon, 21 May 2001 07:07:44 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from charon@localhost) by hades.hell.gr (8.11.3/8.11.3) id f4L47iA15024; Mon, 21 May 2001 07:07:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramidi@otenet.gr) Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 07:07:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: j mckitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? Message-ID: <20010521070743.B11649@hades.hell.gr> References: <20010521031818.B65722@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010521031818.B65722@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:18:18AM +0100 X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3A 75 52 EB F1 58 56 0D - C5 B8 21 B6 1B 5E 4A C2 X-URL: http://students.ceid.upatras.gr/~keramida/index.html Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, May 21, 2001 at 03:18:18AM +0100, j mckitrick wrote: > > All holy wars aside, what do i need to run xemacs effectively? Or, if > someone can convince me xemacs is a waste of time and i should be learning > gnu emacs, what would be the answer to the question applied to gnu emacs? I have been running XEmacs 21.1 (installed and updated more or less often, always from the ports) for quite some time now on a lowly Pentium 133 machine, with 32 Megs of RAM, and *cough* about 512 Mb of swap space. Of course, you dont really _need_ 512 Mb of swap, but it sure does help if you are running XEmacs while you have a dozen or so Netscape windows open at the same time. Now, `effectively' is a rather funny word, and it does take many different interpretations, but I seem to have no problems with my current setup (until now); and I've been working with XEmacs on some files that are _really_ very large (their size ranging from a few hundred Kb's to more than 20 Mb's). Of course, you can only test and see how it feels for you. --giorgos To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message