bug#37652: 26.3; performance drops massively when on some elisp manual pages

bug#37652: 26.3; performance drops massively when on some elisp manual pages

[Chris Hecker]

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Recipe:
1. start emacs -Q for 26.3
2. hit C-h i to get to the info directory
3. m elisp
4. m buffer contents
5. page around in the file for a few seconds, emacs starts crawling and
using an entire cpu


In GNU Emacs 26.3 (build 1, x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  of 2019-08-29 built on CIRROCUMULUS
Repository revision: 96dd0196c28bc36779584e47fffcca433c9309cd
Windowing system distributor 'Microsoft Corp.', version 6.1.7601
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Composing main Info directory...done
Mark saved where search started [2 times]
next-line: End of buffer
Mark set
scroll-up-command: End of buffer [2 times]
scroll-down-command: Beginning of buffer
scroll-up-command: End of buffer
scroll-down-command: Beginning of buffer
C-; is undefined
user-error: No menu in this node
Configured using:
  'configure --without-dbus --host=x86_64-w64-mingw32
  --without-compress-install 'CFLAGS=-O2 -static -g3''

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND NOTIFY ACL GNUTLS LIBXML2 ZLIB
TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS THREADS LCMS2

Important settings:
   value of $LANG: ENU
   locale-coding-system: cp1252

Major mode: Info

Minor modes in effect:
   tooltip-mode: t
   global-eldoc-mode: t
   electric-indent-mode: t
   mouse-wheel-mode: t
   tool-bar-mode: t
   menu-bar-mode: t
   file-name-shadow-mode: t
   global-font-lock-mode: t
   font-lock-mode: t
   blink-cursor-mode: t
   auto-composition-mode: t
   auto-encryption-mode: t
   auto-compression-mode: t
   buffer-read-only: t
   line-number-mode: t
   transient-mark-mode: t

Load-path shadows:
None found.

Features:
(shadow sort mail-extr emacsbug message rmc puny seq byte-opt gv
bytecomp byte-compile cconv cl-loaddefs cl-lib dired dired-loaddefs
format-spec rfc822 mml mml-sec password-cache epa derived epg epg-config
gnus-util rmail rmail-loaddefs mm-decode mm-bodies mm-encode mail-parse
rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail rfc2047 rfc2045
ietf-drums mm-util mail-prsvr mail-utils misearch multi-isearch info
easymenu elec-pair time-date mule-util tooltip eldoc electric uniquify
ediff-hook vc-hooks lisp-float-type mwheel dos-w32 ls-lisp disp-table
term/w32-win w32-win w32-vars term/common-win tool-bar dnd fontset image
regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment text-mode elisp-mode
lisp-mode prog-mode register page menu-bar rfn-eshadow isearch timer
select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax facemenu font-core
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hebrew greek romanian slovak czech european ethiopic indian cyrillic
chinese composite charscript charprop case-table epa-hook jka-cmpr-hook
help simple abbrev obarray minibuffer cl-preloaded nadvice loaddefs
button faces cus-face macroexp files text-properties overlay sha1 md5
base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget hashtable-print-readable
backquote threads w32notify w32 lcms2 multi-tty make-network-process
emacs)

Memory information:
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bug#37652: 26.3; performance drops massively when on some elisp manual pages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Chris Hecker" <checker@d6.com>
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:48:21 +0000
> 
> 1. start emacs -Q for 26.3
> 2. hit C-h i to get to the info directory
> 3. m elisp
> 4. m buffer contents
> 5. page around in the file for a few seconds, emacs starts crawling and
> using an entire cpu

Does it help to set inhibit-compacting-font-caches to a non-nil value?
If so, this problem is already solved in the development code.

bug#37652: Re[2]: bug#37652: 26.3; performance drops massively when on some elisp manual pages

[Chris Hecker]

Yep, that basically fixes it.

Thanks,
Chris



------ Original Message ------
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org>
To: "Chris Hecker" <checker@d6.com>
Cc: 37652@debbugs.gnu.org
Sent: 2019-10-08 01:13:48
Subject: Re: bug#37652: 26.3; performance drops massively when on some 
elisp manual pages

>>  From: "Chris Hecker" <checker@d6.com>
>>  Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:48:21 +0000
>>
>>  1. start emacs -Q for 26.3
>>  2. hit C-h i to get to the info directory
>>  3. m elisp
>>  4. m buffer contents
>>  5. page around in the file for a few seconds, emacs starts crawling and
>>  using an entire cpu
>
>Does it help to set inhibit-compacting-font-caches to a non-nil value?
>If so, this problem is already solved in the development code.

bug#37652: 26.3; performance drops massively when on some elisp manual pages

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Chris Hecker" <checker@d6.com>
> Cc: 37652@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2019 09:24:09 +0000
> 
> 
> Yep, that basically fixes it.

Thanks, so I'm closing this bug report.