From: Dan Nicolaescu <dann@ics.uci.edu>
To: djcb@djcbsoftware.nl
Cc: 5535@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#5535: 23.1.50; emacs daemon high CPU load even while ununsed
Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 10:34:18 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201002061834.o16IYInw028968@godzilla.ics.uci.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <867hqqnyqp.fsf@djcbsoftware.nl> (djcb@djcbsoftware.nl's message of "Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:57:18 +0200")
djcb@djcbsoftware.nl writes:
> I noted that Emacs (emacs --daemon) takes a lot of of CPU (up to 80%), even
> when I am not using it. I am starting emacs --daemon from my ~/.gnomerc, which
> is invoked when I start my X session.
>
> I used strace to see what was going on:
>
> gettimeofday({1265471350, 42334}, NULL) = 0
> read(0, "", 4096) = 0
> write(2, "Back to top level.", 18) = 18
> write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
> poll([{fd=7, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
> gettimeofday({1265471350, 42538}, NULL) = 0
> read(0, "", 4096) = 0
> write(2, "Back to top level.", 18) = 18
> write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
> poll([{fd=7, events=POLLIN}], 1, 0) = 0 (Timeout)
> gettimeofday({1265471350, 42736}, NULL) = 0
> read(0, "", 4096) = 0
> write(2, "Back to top level.", 18) = 18
> write(2, "\n", 1) = 1
>
> [...]
>
> and this continues at high speed. Apparently, emacs calling the lisp function
> normal-top-level in lisp/startup.el many, many times.
> Hope this helps tracking down the issue.
Did you have X11 emacs frames and kill the frames, or kill X11?
If yes, then it's probably a long time bug in Gtk+ that causes this.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85715
> Best wishes,
> Dirk.
>
>
> If you would like to further debug the crash, please read the file
> /usr/share/emacs/23.1.50/etc/DEBUG for instructions.
>
>
> In GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.18.0)
> of 2009-09-27 on crested, modified by Debian
> (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20090909-1)
This is an old snapshot, you might want to try a newer version.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-06 18:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-06 15:57 bug#5535: 23.1.50; emacs daemon high CPU load even while ununsed djcb
2010-02-06 18:34 ` Dan Nicolaescu [this message]
2010-02-07 15:06 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2011-10-06 7:40 ` Glenn Morris
2011-10-23 17:52 ` bug#5535: " Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2011-11-29 11:57 ` bug#5535: 24.0.91, emacs daemon high CPU load and .xsession-errors overflow Sascha Wilde
2011-11-29 12:07 ` Sascha Wilde
2020-08-07 10:52 ` bug#5535: 23.1.50; emacs daemon high CPU load even while ununsed Stefan Kangas
2020-08-08 7:33 ` Dirk-Jan C. Binnema
2020-08-08 14:42 ` Stefan Kangas
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