Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Mon, 21 May 2001 10:34:31 -0400
From:      dochawk@psu.edu
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: how much ram/cpu/swap to run emacs/xemacs effectively? 
Message-ID:  <200105211434.f4LEYV582947@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 21 May 2001 03:18:18 BST." <20010521031818.B65722@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> 

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200105211434.f4LEYV582947>