From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in process.c Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:09:03 +1200 Message-ID: <17930.55663.744048.120645@farnswood.snap.net.nz> References: <87ejna5qwa.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17929.38544.280560.227806@farnswood.snap.net.nz> <460A757F.3000308@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175116344 9147 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2007 21:12:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 21:12:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Chong Yidong , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sam Steingold Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 28 23:12:13 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HWfRE-0004Yb-5e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 23:12:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWfTj-0000ud-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:47 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWfTd-0000o5-E4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWfTc-0000ke-0D for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:14:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWfTb-0000kV-Qs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:14:39 -0500 Original-Received: from viper.snap.net.nz ([202.37.101.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWfR3-00082f-NM; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 17:12:02 -0400 Original-Received: from farnswood.snap.net.nz (202.63.255.123.dynamic.snap.net.nz [123.255.63.202]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313B03D8930; Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:11:51 +1200 (NZST) Original-Received: by farnswood.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id 67680627ED; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 22:09:04 +0100 (BST) In-Reply-To: <460A757F.3000308@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.96.1 X-detected-kernel: Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:68730 Archived-At: > > Can't the reason for the change be summarised in situ? > > it is summarized: "or some reason, this sleep() prevents Emacs from > sending loadavg to 5-8(!) for ~10 seconds". > 40 messages of various conjectures, claims, counterclaims, rebuttals &c > are long but of dubious value inside the source code. If we don't understand why a change works then I'm not sure that it's the right fix. -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob