Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 07:07:43 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramidi@otenet.gr> To: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? Message-ID: <20010521070743.B11649@hades.hell.gr> 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 %2B0100 References: <20010521031818.B65722@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>
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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
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