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>>>>> "Fran=E7ois" =3D=3D Fran=E7ois Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> wri=
tes:
> The problem is that, at regular intervals (maybe once every fifteen
> minutes or so, I did not precisely timed it), Emacs suddenly starts
> burning CPU solidly for about 20 seconds, not responding to commands,
> and in particular, not responding to `C-g's.  This occurs spontaneously=
,

A shot in the dark: do you happen to use font-lock (with jit-lock,
which is the case by default) and do you happen to have some very
large buffers (a typical case would be a large RMAIL buffer) ?


	Stefan