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Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping is pretty funny now that everything else needs several GB of memory. (But to be fair even a minimal Emacs is about 20MB

by donio 4y ago

Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping is pretty funny now that everything else needs several GB of memory. (But to be fair even a minimal Emacs is about 20MB RSS these days).

mftb 4y ago
Hmm, I can't get an RSS that small even with -nw (to use the client TUI), but leaving that aside, on my box just running GNU Emacs normally I get 88MB RSS, so maybe we just need to update the acronym. ;)
- donio 4y ago
  I had to rebuild it with everything turned off in ./configure to get that number.
  - mftb 4y ago
    Interesting, I was thinking it was probably a fork. Anyway good to know, ty.
Gordonjcp 4y ago
I think it's nuts that the Linux machine I run DaVinci Resolve on today has considerably more RAM than the Windows NT machine I used to use Premiere for editing on 22 years ago had hard disk space. Back then mine was the "scary" machine in the workshop with its AMD Duron 700 and a whopping 512MB of RAM... and Emacs was just about usable on it!