Hi, I use emacs routinely as my editor. (I like vi too... I actually wrote my phd thesis using vi on a vax 11-750 over a 1200 baud modem (... maybe 300 baud ?) :) )
Emacs startup has gotten much slower once I changed some memory settings. No xserver memory issues as X is not running. Just plain emacs I have just setup a new Debian Sarge server with postgresql, a Asus A8v motherboard with an Athlon64 3200 processor, debian kernel 2.6.8. I have 1GB of RAM DDR400. In order to get postgresql the resources it needs for a big database and many connections, I allocated memory resources for it. This involved setting shmmax to 425000000 from its debian default of 33554432. I also set the following parameters in the postgresql.conf file shared_buffers = 48000 max_connections = 512 sort_mem = 4096 effective_cache_size = 4000 wal_buffers = 8 Now emacs takes 10 seconds to start up. Vi starts immediately as usual. Can someone explain to me what is going on. top top - 17:49:12 up 1:38, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 Tasks: 83 total, 2 running, 80 sleeping, 0 stopped, 1 zombie Cpu(s): 0.0% us, 0.0% sy, 0.0% ni, 100.0% id, 0.0% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.0% si Mem: 906736k total, 140896k used, 765840k free, 17768k buffers Swap: 1951856k total, 0k used, 1951856k free, 69468k cached PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 1 root 16 0 1512 524 1360 S 0.0 0.1 0:00.45 init 2 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0 3 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:03.08 events/0 4 root 12 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 khelper 5 root 15 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kacpid 38 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.01 kblockd/0 48 root 20 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 pdflush 49 root 15 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 pdflush 51 root 5 -10 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0 50 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kswapd0 193 root 25 0 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod Thanks, Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]