[donio]

Eight Megabytes and Constantly Swapping is pretty funny now that everything else needs several GB of memory.

(But to be fair even a minimal Emacs is about 20MB RSS these days).

[mftb]

Hmm, I can't get an RSS that small even with -nw (to use the client TUI), but leaving that aside, on my box just running GNU Emacs normally I get 88MB RSS, so maybe we just need to update the acronym. ;)

[donio]

I had to rebuild it with everything turned off in ./configure to get that number.

[mftb]

Interesting, I was thinking it was probably a fork. Anyway good to know, ty.

[Gordonjcp]

I think it's nuts that the Linux machine I run DaVinci Resolve on today has considerably more RAM than the Windows NT machine I used to use Premiere for editing on 22 years ago had hard disk space.

Back then mine was the "scary" machine in the workshop with its AMD Duron 700 and a whopping 512MB of RAM... and Emacs was just about usable on it!