Re: tlug: Emacs these days

[Peter Linsley <plinsley@example.com>]

Your message dated: Thu, 14 Jan 1999 17:45:14 +0900

[snip]

> Three `X'?  This looks like you got two zombies eating your
> memory (and CPU).  If I assume, the one with PID 27439 is
> the X server that you are actually using, then we have 35MB
> memory for Emacs, X, and Netscape, which is bound to lead to
> quite some swapping when you change between Netscape and
> Emacs.  With two rogue X servers hanging around, the fact
> that you can still work on the machine shows that Linux is
> quite good at handling virtual memory.

[snip]

> You seem to use Emacs quite heavily, 16MB are usually enough 
> for my XEmacs and I am living in that thing.  Anyhow, after
> you got rid of the two rogue X, things will probably get
> much better.

I use three X servers quite often. That way I can use the 
desktop of a machine running XDM in the noisy machine room 
without having to go there, they can be switched between 
with a key press.

As for Emacs, on monitoring the virtual memory usage, it looks
like the right thing to do is to go out and buy more memory.

pete.
             
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