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From: Deniz Dogan <deniz@dogan.se>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Emacs W32 HEAD: Pausing on disk access
Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:28:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EAF04ED.6040502@dogan.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8uj1o8-7da.ln1@lesharris.com>

On 2011-10-31 05:14, Les Harris wrote:
> I've been tracking head and building a windows build using a
> Gnuwin32/Mingw toolchain.  Sometimes, on what appears to be disk access
> (visiting/saving a file, eldoc lookups, etc,) Emacs will freeze for
> roughly 1-3 seconds.
>
> Its a little sporadic (in the sense it doesn't necessarily happen on
> every diskaccess) but quite consistant and frequent.
>
> What can I do to assist in tracking down what's causing this?  Or
> perhaps I am the only person seeing this and it is a local system issue?
>
> I certainly don't see this behavior in a GNU/Linux environment.
>
> Thank you!
>

When I experience what you describe it's because the disk being 
written/read to/from is "cold" and is starting up again.  When this 
happens on Windows 7, it gives off a sound similar to "blooOOoOoop!!"




      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-31 20:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-31  4:14 Emacs W32 HEAD: Pausing on disk access Les Harris
2011-10-31  7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-10-31 20:28 ` Deniz Dogan [this message]

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