top - 03:58:39 up 15 min,  4 users,  load average: 0.00, 0.14, 0.26
Tasks:   4 total,   0 running,   4 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s):  2.8%us,  0.5%sy,  0.0%ni, 96.1%id,  0.0%wa,  0.5%hi,  0.2%si,
+  0.0%st
Mem:   1024180k total,   654992k used,   369188k free,    28076k buffe
+rs
Swap:   931728k total,        0k used,   931728k free,   254176k cache
+d

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND  
+          
 6326 lanx      20   0 45116  13m 5924 S    0  1.3   0:00.10 gvim     
+          
 6594 lanx      20   0 36400 7708 5728 S    0  0.8   0:00.16 vim      
+          
 6468 lanx      20   0 32440  20m  10m S    0  2.0   0:02.48 emacs    
+          
 6562 lanx      20   0 20948 8056 4428 S    0  0.8   0:00.66 emacs-nw
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Many vim users love antique FUD¹ like "Eleven Megabytes Are Constantly Swapping".

¹) much like Pythonistas btw