On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nick Moffitt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Eric House wrote: > > > I'm running 1.3.1 in terminal mode. I launch emacs by typing 'emacs' > > at the cmd line, and it takes *at least* five minutes to come up. > > Once up, it works just fine. And other apps don't seem to have this > > problem: they launch as quickly as ever. > > This is the behavior I've come to expect from emacs. Eighteen > Megs And Constantly Swapping. > It's a huge app! What sort of hardware do you have? What version > of Emacs? I wouldn't run it on anything sub-pentium, myself.
Running hamm on a 486 dx4 100 with 16M memory (49.87 Bogomips), typing emacs from a terminal, I get a delay of 9.5 seconds. That's fine for me. Netscape in X is another matter though. Would setting the mode to store the image in swap speed stuff up? Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward-elect of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
