bug#30543: 25.2; Emacs overuses CPU on session startup in separate virtual desktop

bug#30543: 25.2; Emacs overuses CPU on session startup in separate virtual desktop

[Quentin Jankosky]

To have this bug occur, you must have emacs saved in a desktop session,
and have more than one virtual desktop. This seems to happen in XFCE.

1) Start emacs (gtk mode) in a virtual desktop.
2) Select a different virtual desktop.
3) Logout of the DE, effectively saving the current session and saving
the previously selected desktop.
4) Log back in
ISSUE) Emacs will run on the desktop it was saved on in the session, but
will use massive amounts of CPU until the desktop is selected.

Once emacs is focused on, it properly loads and stops using large
amounts of CPU.

This is not a major bug, but it is a nuisance.



In GNU Emacs 25.2.2 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.20)
of 2017-09-11, modified by Debian built on trouble
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11906000
System Description: Debian GNU/Linux testing (buster)

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bug#30543: 25.2; Emacs overuses CPU on session startup in separate virtual desktop

[Noam Postavsky]

Quentin Jankosky <hawkingfan2000@gmail.com> writes:

> To have this bug occur, you must have emacs saved in a desktop session,
> and have more than one virtual desktop. This seems to happen in XFCE.
>
> 1) Start emacs (gtk mode) in a virtual desktop.
> 2) Select a different virtual desktop.
> 3) Logout of the DE, effectively saving the current session and saving
> the previously selected desktop.
> 4) Log back in
> ISSUE) Emacs will run on the desktop it was saved on in the session, but
> will use massive amounts of CPU until the desktop is selected.
>
> Once emacs is focused on, it properly loads and stops using large
> amounts of CPU.
>
> This is not a major bug, but it is a nuisance.

This sounds similar to Bug#24091, could you check if it still occurs in
the emacs 26 pretest versions?  If it does, attaching a debugger to see
where it's spinning would be helpful.

https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=24091

bug#30543: 25.2; Emacs overuses CPU on session startup in separate virtual desktop

[Noam Postavsky]

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From: Quentin Jankosky <hawkingfan2000@gmail.com>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#30543: 25.2; Emacs overuses CPU on session startup in separate virtual desktop
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:30:55 -0500
Message-ID: <3c064433-5c9a-03a4-b967-eb82f6e3597f@gmail.com>

So, I fixed something to get it working again, so I will have to revert 
some stuff to test this stuff again. The problem with the cpu load seems 
to be specific to 24 (and maybe 25-26?). I currently use 27, which did 
not have this happen, but I had some other bugs occur that I realized 
were partly my fault.

So far, I think it has to do something with having more than one version 
of emacs installed, but I will again need to do more testing with that. 
I will get back to you once I get my old emacs 24 bug happening again, 
and I will bind the debugger.

bug#30543: 25.2; Emacs overuses CPU on session startup in separate virtual desktop

[Noam Postavsky]

> From: Quentin Jankosky <hawkingfan2000@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 10:30:55 -0500 (8 weeks, 1 day, 10 hours ago)

> So far, I think it has to do something with having more than one version 
> of emacs installed, but I will again need to do more testing with that. 
> I will get back to you once I get my old emacs 24 bug happening again, 
> and I will bind the debugger.

Any update on this?