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On 18 Jun 2002, D. Goel wrote:

> it seems that when things get slow, everything gets slow.. it seems to
> take emacs a minute to even recognize a C-n ... 

Is it really a minute, or just ``too long to wait''?

If it really takes a minute, I'd first try to see if your system runs out 
of physical memory and starts paging.  Do you see amy significant disk 
activity during this time?

Also, please set garbage-collection-messages non-nil and see if GC is 
happening during those periods of slow-down.