From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 21 7:37:19 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8936C37B422 for ; Mon, 21 May 2001 07:37:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4LEYV582947; Mon, 21 May 2001 10:34:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105211434.f4LEYV582947@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: j mckitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 03:18:18 BST." <20010521031818.B65722@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> From: dochawk@psu.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 10:34:31 -0400 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 Jonathon jib ed > All holy wars aside, what do i need to run xemacs effectively? But, but . . . :) As a general rule for any version of emacs, ever since first released, find out how much memory the largest machine shipping at the time of its releease could possibly have, then double. Once it was only *Eight* Megs And Constant Swapping . . . :) hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message