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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Geoff Shannon <geoffpshannon@gmail.com>
Cc: 17713@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17713: First portion of `bt full`
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 11:00:21 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83iooe4gdm.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+pAvvx6cOXYyi-PYRJCjMmMt8-vLvY=ynPRYTbjkxGy+3518g@mail.gmail.com>

> From: Geoff Shannon <geoffpshannon@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 00:57:10 -0700
> Cc: 17713@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > Are you sure it is hung, and not in some very long GC?  I see nothing
> > wrong in the backtrace you sent, it just shows that Emacs is
> > collecting garbage.  Lots of it.  It is not unusual for GC to have
> > tens of thousands of recursive calls to mark_object, because GC is
> > highly recursive.
> >
> 
> Not sure at all, but before I decided it was hung I let it sit for several
> seconds at least.

Several seconds is too little.

> > If you leave it running, does it eventually recover and become
> > responsive again?  Or does it keep being stuck forever?
> >
> 
> So I let it run in the debugger again.  It is still unresponsive, though it
> is still blinking the
> cursor.  It seems to be totally unresponsive to keystrokes and mouseclicks
> (it's a GTK windowed emacs).

Let's see if it comes back to life any time soon.

Did you customize any GC-related options, like gc-cons-threshold?





  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-06  8:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-06  7:08 bug#17713: 24.3.91; Emacs hung in GC? Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06  7:13 ` bug#17713: First Portion of 'backtrace` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06  7:14 ` bug#17713: First portion of `bt full` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06  7:49   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06  7:57     ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06  8:00       ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-06-06  8:06         ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06  8:21           ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06  8:51             ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06 13:46               ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-06  7:32 ` bug#17713: Compressed Forms of 'backtrace' and 'bt full' output Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06  7:56   ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06  7:59     ` Geoff Shannon
2014-06-06  8:04       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-06 13:41       ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-06 15:34 ` bug#17713: 24.3.91; Emacs hung in GC? Stefan Monnier
2014-06-08 22:01   ` Geoff Shannon

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