I have written an Emacs package called Prodigy (https://github.com/rejeep/prodigy.el/). The package is used to manage external services from within Emacs. A service is some kind of running process, usually a web server or database.

There has always been an issue that I have not investigated further. It seems that after a while, if Emacs is not focused, it ends up in some idle mode. The effect is that requests are very slow, almost hangs for a few seconds. If I focus the Emacs window, the request goes through immediately.

The reason I'm asking about it now is that this has gotten even worse in Emacs 25.

My question is if anyone knows what this is about and if it's possible to solve?

Thanks!
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