bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

[Johannes Lundberg]

Add (global-auto-revert-mode 1) to .emacs.
Start Emacs.
Emacs now using 100% cpu.
truss -p <pid> show that Emacs is doing fstatat(), possibly stuck
endless loop.


In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0, GTK+ Version 3.24.7)
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11804000
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.

Configured using:
'configure --disable-build-details --localstatedir=/var --without-gpm
--with-x --enable-acl --without-cairo --with-dbus --with-gconf
--with-gif --with-gnutls --with-gsettings --with-x-toolkit=gtk3
--with-jpeg --with-json --with-file-notification=kqueue --with-lcms2
--with-m17n-flt --with-imagemagick --with-mailutils --with-modules
--with-sound=oss --with-libotf --with-png --with-toolkit-scroll-bars
--with-rsvg --with-threads --with-tiff --with-xft --with-xim
--with-xml2 --with-xpm --without-xwidgets --x-libraries=/usr/local/lib
--x-includes=/usr/local/include --prefix=/usr/local
--mandir=/usr/local/man --disable-silent-rules
--infodir=/usr/local/share/emacs/info/
--build=amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0 'CFLAGS=-O2 -pipe -fstack-protector
-isystem /usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing ' 'CPPFLAGS=-isystem
/usr/local/include' 'LDFLAGS= -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib ''

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NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE M17N_FLT LIBOTF XFT ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS LCMS2

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mouse-wheel-mode: t
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bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:50:54 -0700
> 
> Add (global-auto-revert-mode 1) to .emacs.
> Start Emacs.
> Emacs now using 100% cpu.
> truss -p <pid> show that Emacs is doing fstatat(), possibly stuck
> endless loop.
> 
> 
> In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0, GTK+ Version 3.24.7)

Not reproducible on GNU/Linux.  Maybe this is a FreeBSD specific
problem, due to kqueue implementation of file notifications?

Does this happen if your .emacs includes only the above line?

bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

[Johannes Lundberg]

On 4/27/19 10:36 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
>> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 09:50:54 -0700
>>
>> Add (global-auto-revert-mode 1) to .emacs.
>> Start Emacs.
>> Emacs now using 100% cpu.
>> truss -p <pid> show that Emacs is doing fstatat(), possibly stuck
>> endless loop.
>>
>>
>> In GNU Emacs 26.2 (build 1, amd64-portbld-freebsd13.0, GTK+ Version 3.24.7)
> Not reproducible on GNU/Linux.  Maybe this is a FreeBSD specific
> problem, due to kqueue implementation of file notifications?
>
> Does this happen if your .emacs includes only the above line?

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, only the one line. I'll file a bug report on freebsd's bugzilla.

bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: 35457@debbugs.gnu.org
> From: Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 27 Apr 2019 10:51:21 -0700
> 
> Yes, only the one line. I'll file a bug report on freebsd's bugzilla.

I suggest to wait for Michael Albinus to chime in, perhaps he will
have some insight on this.

bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

[Michael Albinus]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Yes, only the one line. I'll file a bug report on freebsd's bugzilla.
>
> I suggest to wait for Michael Albinus to chime in, perhaps he will
> have some insight on this.

I've tested on a FreeBSD 10 system, with Emacs compiled according to the
emacs-26.2 git tag. Also not reproducible.

Maybe you have some global init files which make the difference? Try

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
emacs -Q --eval "(global-auto-revert-mode 1)"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

'top' for emacs starts with 5% cpu, and decreases then.

On that FreeBSD 10 system, I cannot run X applications (it is a limited
virtual machine). So you could also try in order to have my config


--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
emacs -Q -nw --eval "(global-auto-revert-mode 1)"
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Best regards, Michael.

bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

[Johannes Lundberg]

On 4/29/19 10:03 AM, Michael Albinus wrote:
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> Yes, only the one line. I'll file a bug report on freebsd's bugzilla.
>> I suggest to wait for Michael Albinus to chime in, perhaps he will
>> have some insight on this.
> I've tested on a FreeBSD 10 system, with Emacs compiled according to the
> emacs-26.2 git tag. Also not reproducible.
>
> Maybe you have some global init files which make the difference? Try
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> emacs -Q --eval "(global-auto-revert-mode 1)"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> 'top' for emacs starts with 5% cpu, and decreases then.
>
> On that FreeBSD 10 system, I cannot run X applications (it is a limited
> virtual machine). So you could also try in order to have my config
>
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> emacs -Q -nw --eval "(global-auto-revert-mode 1)"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> Best regards, Michael.
Hi!

Thanks for testing. Syncing world + kernel (my world was a couple of
months older than the kernel) and/or reinstalling emacs seem to have
fixed the problem so we can close this.

/Johannes

bug#35457: 26.2; global-auto-revert-mode cause 100% cpu usage

[Michael Albinus]

tags 35457 notabug
close 35457
quit

Johannes Lundberg <johalun0@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi!

Hi Johannes,

> Thanks for testing. Syncing world + kernel (my world was a couple of
> months older than the kernel) and/or reinstalling emacs seem to have
> fixed the problem so we can close this.

Thanks for confirmation, I'm closing the bug.

> /Johannes

Best regards, Michael.