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Subject: "strace emacs" reveals emacs always active
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Comparing
$ strace emacs
vs.
$ strace vi
one finds emacs never sleeps. Lots of gettimeofday calls.
And I thought all it needed to do was keep count of auto-save-interval
events.  Yes, emacs isn't making a blip on my CPU meter, but still I
bet it is doing something that miserly me probably doesn't need it to do.