[mythtv-users] OFF TOPIC: Text Editor(s) ?

John Morris jmorris at beau.org
Fri Nov 15 06:14:35 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 22:01 -0500, Eric Sharkey wrote:

> A lot of this strife dates to the days when running a text editor was
> a serious strain on a system.  These days, "Eight Megabytes And
> Constantly Swapping" just sounds really dated.

Yea... 8MB is woefully small.  I just launched emacs and see it is
consuming 32MB resident set with 660MB of VSS.  Actually opening a tiny
text file increased that to 37MB and 968MB of VSS.  Same file opened in
vim, 4920KB of resident set and 148M of VSS.  gvim only consumes
16MB/519MB.
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