From: spj@ukelele.gcr.com (Guru Aleph_Null) Subject: Re: Exaggeration of X11 RAM usage (was Re: Coherent vs. Linux - a comparo) Date: Mon, 21 Jun 1993 23:00:51 GMT
bcr@cernapo.cern.ch (Bill Riemers) writes:
>Actually, I'd also be interested in knowing how these people are using so
>much memory... I run Linux with 8MB memory, and 16MB swap. I tried once
>to use all the memory, by opening up several sessions of lemacs and every
>game on the system. However, even then I ran out of process table space
>with still 8MB to spare. The only way I've ever managed to use more than
>that is to start running gcc in some of the xterm windows, or to use
>a version of xdm with memory leaks. Another way to waist memory
>is to use gnus, but since my Linux system doesn't have an internet
>feed, I avoid that problem quite effectively. (One of these days, I'd
>like to know why gnus uses so much memory...)
The closest I've ever come to maxing out my memory (8M real, 6somethingM
virtual) was formatting the Info page for Emacs Calc. Got within 2M's of
running out of memory... :)
I just wish that GNUS wasn't so slow... I tried to use it, but I just
couldn't wait 45 minutes for it to load up all the newsgroups... So I
stick with NN for now.
> Bill
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