From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sebastien Vauban Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#20927: 24.5; Cygwin Emacs completely blocks for 5+ seconds Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:26:55 +0200 Organization: Sebastien Vauban Message-ID: References: <55915E49.4010409@cornell.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1435652899 16542 80.91.229.3 (30 Jun 2015 08:28:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:28:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 20927-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org To: Ken Brown Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Tue Jun 30 10:28:11 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qtm-0001aU-PW for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:28:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45664 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qtl-0006XX-T2 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:28:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:36900) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qtj-0006XM-Dm for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:28:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qtf-0004wf-81 for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:28:07 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:60486) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qtf-0004wZ-55 for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:28:03 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qte-0003VE-OX for bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:28:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Resent-From: Sebastien Vauban Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Resent-Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:28:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 20927 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 20927-submit-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org id=B20927.143565283113400 (code B ref 20927); Tue, 30 Jun 2015 08:28:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 20927) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jun 2015 08:27:11 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33698 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qsp-0003U3-Iz for submit-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from dd5e0353a.access.telenet.be ([213.224.53.58]:26892 helo=mail.missioncriticalit.com) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Z9qsn-0003Tr-M1 for 20927-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 04:27:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mundaneum (unknown [10.10.10.51]) by mail.missioncriticalit.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 96A77500527; Tue, 30 Jun 2015 10:27:03 +0200 (CEST) X-Url: Under construction... X-Archive: encrypt In-Reply-To: <55915E49.4010409-HmMyXyqgL2CVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org> (Ken Brown's message of "Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:37 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (cygwin) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit-ubl+/3LiMTaZdePnXv/OxA@public.gmane.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:104526 Archived-At: Ken Brown writes: > On 6/29/2015 9:21 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: >> When: >> >> 1. Starting Cygwin Emacs, >> 2. Opening whichever local file (`org-mode/lisp/org.el', in my case), >> and >> 3. Keeping constantly our index on the Down arrow key to make the buffer >> scroll indefinitely, >> >> Emacs blocks (after 30 seconds scroll or so) for 5 entire seconds, and >> then revives... > > I can't reproduce this on my system. I held my finger on the down arrow for > about 2 minutes. Weird... I can reproduce that quite easily, and Emacs pauses almost on the same lines each time. If you're interested, I can make a video of it. >> I've tracked down this problem in Cygwin Emacs, and it's due to this >> line: >> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- >> (global-auto-revert-mode 1) ; Auto refresh buffers. >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- >> >> When it's commented, Cygwin Emacs behaves normally. >> >> Note the above line does NOT cause any trouble in Windows Emacs... > > One difference is that Cygwin Emacs uses gfilenotify, based on GLib. I recall > a discussion some time ago (either on emacs-devel or in a bug report) about > problems with gfilenotify, but I don't remember if the problems were resolved. That seems to still be the problem -- see next post.