On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 1:00 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
Several seconds is too little.

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

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

I didn't personally, but I use emacs Prelude which does this:

(setq gc-cons-threshold 50000000)

I'm guessing that's likely the cause of this?

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Geoff

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