From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ken Brown Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20927: 24.5; Cygwin Emacs completely blocks for 5+ seconds Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:37 -0400 Message-ID: <55915E49.4010409@cornell.edu> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435590269 7968 80.91.229.3 (29 Jun 2015 15:04:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:04:29 +0000 (UTC) To: Sebastien Vauban , 20927@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 29 17:04:17 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9abY-0005VS-RO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 17:04:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42641 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9abX-0003kL-RS for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:04:15 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47477) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9abO-0003jT-Tg for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9abK-0005vo-Ie for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:04:06 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:59871) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9abK-0005vU-Dw for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:04:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9abK-0007oL-67 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:04:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Ken Brown Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:04:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20927 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20927-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B20927.143559022530000 (code B ref 20927); Mon, 29 Jun 2015 15:04:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20927) by debbugs.gnu.org; 29 Jun 2015 15:03:45 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33084 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9ab2-0007no-H5 for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:44 -0400 Original-Received: from limerock03.mail.cornell.edu ([128.84.13.243]:40808) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9ab0-0007nY-1G for 20927@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:42 -0400 X-CornellRouted: This message has been Routed already. Original-Received: from authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (granite3.serverfarm.cornell.edu [10.16.197.8]) by limerock03.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.14.4_cu) with ESMTP id t5TF3abk001442; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.1.7] (cpe-67-249-176-138.twcny.res.rr.com [67.249.176.138]) (authenticated bits=0) by authusersmtp.mail.cornell.edu (8.14.4/8.12.10) with ESMTP id t5TF3YJ2004764 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NOT); Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:35 -0400 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.7.0 In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:104489 Archived-At: On 6/29/2015 9:21 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: > Hello, > > When: > > 1. Starting Cygwin Emacs, > 2. Opening whichever local file (`org-mode/lisp/org.el', in my case), > and > 3. Keeping constantly our index on the Down arrow key to make the buffer > scroll indefinitely, > > Emacs blocks (after 30 seconds scroll or so) for 5 entire seconds, and > then revives... I can't reproduce this on my system. I held my finger on the down arrow for about 2 minutes. > I've tracked down this problem in Cygwin Emacs, and it's due to this > line: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > (global-auto-revert-mode 1) ; Auto refresh buffers. > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > When it's commented, Cygwin Emacs behaves normally. > > Note the above line does NOT cause any trouble in Windows Emacs... One difference is that Cygwin Emacs uses gfilenotify, based on GLib. I recall a discussion some time ago (either on emacs-devel or in a bug report) about problems with gfilenotify, but I don't remember if the problems were resolved. Ken