From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Deniz Dogan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs W32 HEAD: Pausing on disk access Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:28:29 +0100 Message-ID: <4EAF04ED.6040502@dogan.se> References: <8uj1o8-7da.ln1@lesharris.com> 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: dough.gmane.org 1320092985 6003 80.91.229.12 (31 Oct 2011 20:29:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2011 20:29:45 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Oct 31 21:29:42 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RKyUH-0000oj-IQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:29:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52989 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKyUH-0006AY-0C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:29:41 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:47828) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKyUE-0006AT-WF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:29:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKyUE-00037q-0z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:29:38 -0400 Original-Received: from ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net ([80.76.153.6]:35346) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RKyUD-00037m-RC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 16:29:37 -0400 Original-Received: from c80-216-107-103.bredband.comhem.se ([80.216.107.103]:63591 helo=[192.168.0.10]) by ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1RKyTD-0004Fq-HB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 31 Oct 2011 21:28:36 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 In-Reply-To: <8uj1o8-7da.ln1@lesharris.com> X-Originating-IP: 80.216.107.103 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1RKyTD-0004Fq-HB. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp05.sth.basefarm.net 1RKyTD-0004Fq-HB d9392e96d01a937a1facb39e54357d3d X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.76.153.6 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:145821 Archived-At: 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!!"