[comp.emacs] GNU's Load on System

aaron@rruxh.UUCP (Akman) (05/25/90)

I'm running into a problem running GnuEMACS.  My system
administrator has complained, on a few occasions, that it uses too
much of the system's resources.  On one of our machines, where
performance is especially critical, he has even disabled the command!
So I'm left puttering around in VI, trying to remember the names of
directories without completions....

It's hard for me to argue with him because I honestly don't know if
I am using lots of machine resources.  Here's what I routinely do in
a GnuEMACS session:

	1-2 Telnet Buffers
	1   Shell Buffer...my main shell for doing stuff
	1   GNUS Session, mostly just sitting there
	~50 Files by the time I'm in the middle of things
	1   TAGS type session with lots of C files
	1   RMAIL
	    *xmail* from time-to-time
	    ftp-find-file, ftp-write-file to a few machines

I display the time and system load on the status line, and we're
running Pyramids with the dual port.  Here are some columns from a
current PS, but I've only logged on recently so it may not show much.

  FLAGS S  PID  PPID  C PRI NI ADDR  SZ    WCHAN  STIME   TTY  TIME COMD
   8001 S  979     1  0  28 20 7d34  20 ff317a50 08:41:12 i44  0:00 ksh
   8001 R  959 13704 17  54 20 78ad 562          11:43:58  p1  1:07 gnuemacs -f rmail
   8201 S  984 13959  1  40 20 6371  32 c00cc000 11:44:07  p3  0:00 /usr/local/gnuemacs/etc/loadst -n 6
 808201 S  704 13702  0  40 20 32d3  20 c00cc000 11:43:01  p1  0:00 ksh
   8201 S  655 13959  0  40 20 6fb8  19 c00cc000 12:07:26  p7  0:00 /bin/ksh -i
   8001 R  130 18655 81  70 20 2dd6 183          12:09:17  p7  0:01 ps -fluaaron

Any advice on how I could change bad habits, convince my
administrator there is a good explanation, or at least understand a
bit more?

	
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Aaron Akman, 201-699-8019, bellcore!rruxh!aaron, RRC 4D-728