From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sam Steingold Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Change in process.c Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:02:39 -0400 Message-ID: <460A757F.3000308@gnu.org> References: <87ejna5qwa.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <17929.38544.280560.227806@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1175090641 25324 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2007 14:04:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , Chong Yidong , rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nick Roberts Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 28 16:03:51 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 1HWYjf-0001KZ-Sq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:02:48 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWYm8-00077x-Rn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:05:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWYm6-00076g-F5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:05:18 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1HWYm4-00076R-Fn for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:05:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HWYm4-00076N-DL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 09:05:16 -0500 Original-Received: from www.janestcapital.com ([66.155.124.107] helo=smtp.janestcapital.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HWYja-0007W6-EN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:02:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [172.25.131.105] [38.96.172.125] by janestcapital.com with ESMTP (SMTPD-9.10) id A58001DC; Wed, 28 Mar 2007 10:02:40 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.8 (X11/20061107) In-Reply-To: <17929.38544.280560.227806@farnswood.snap.net.nz> X-detected-kernel: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ 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:68709 Archived-At: Nick Roberts wrote: > > /* For some reason, this sleep() prevents Emacs from sending > > loadavg to 5-8(!) for ~10 seconds. > > See http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel/67722 or > > http://www.google.com/search?q=busyloop+in+sigchld_handler */ > > Links that might disappear, and searches whose results will change, as comments > doesn't seem a good idea. the link will not disappear any more than a "gnu.org" link will. if you have a better link, please add it. > 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.