On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, Nick Moffitt wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jun 1998, I 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.
It's a pentium-class machine, 166mhz most likely. It ran emacs fine just two weeks ago. And once the thing's launched it's still fine. But the now launch takes 5 or 10 minutes where it used to take five seconds. --Eric House +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | from the desktop of: Eric House, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | "The instructions said 'Win95 or better' -- so I installed Linux" | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
