From: Gunnar Horrigmo <horrigmo@runbox.no>
To: Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: locked history file
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:01:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <iv4h7mbo93k.fsf@hot-rats.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2v9arzxwa.fsf@matts-mbp-2016.lan> (Matt Armstrong's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:10:45 -0800")
Matt Armstrong <matt@rfc20.org> writes:
> How big is your history file? Perhaps it is enormous, causing the IO to
> take an unusualy long time.
No, its tiny. 26K. It's not that long since I did a spring cleaning in
all of my init code, so I probably deleted it at the time.
> How is your hard disk? If it is seeing intermitten write slowness at
> other times? Could you be doing IO intensive tasks when these problems
> occur?
That's a good question. I shall find out.
> When you run your multiple Emacs instances, do you launch them all at
> the same time? For example, at login?
Oh yeah, absolutely. But I've been doing that for years.
> If so, then the history save
> timers would all happen at similar times, which would increase the
> chance of a write lock conflict.
Yes, another good target for investigation.
> Feel free to file an Emacs bug on this.
Will do.
--
Gunnar
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-02-17 0:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-02-16 10:43 locked history file Gunnar Horrigmo
2021-02-16 15:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-02-16 23:57 ` Gunnar Horrigmo
2021-02-16 18:10 ` Matt Armstrong
2021-02-17 0:01 ` Gunnar Horrigmo [this message]
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