From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gunnar Horrigmo Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: locked history file Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:01:51 +0100 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="12757"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Matt Armstrong Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 17 01:02:58 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lCAJ0-0003Ce-BG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:02:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51954 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCAIz-0007ct-By for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:02:57 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCAIE-0007BH-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:02:10 -0500 Original-Received: from aibo.runbox.com ([91.220.196.211]:33874) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lCAIC-0004xK-Io for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Feb 2021 19:02:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=runbox.no; s=selector2; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date: References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=CfQafOe6r5Ao6Zjd9p0VF12fQ/+gM6D+N1Evpy+uCj4=; b=M13f56l3BYgchFXUdCyAvJ5XGe 5THNbPPk2HE1A3n0tiSifgJFKBIEI7Xb/5U9aazvNoVEPSZRdpI9fWdAjXpins72kJpUKE0G3DemT 35Xe1c0vchWU8Ml/eHWo7/y1tYePnn1z1N/eRT3fsk73lk9OK9q5LDWaUnN+d/3DQV/lgStvWSHuZ cUe//Rkah021NrRvkICJ+/8kMC0IEx6UUiW3D5c4taHX7wwaDgXGASSmxNDLnQUaNqFpGH/HFxTZS 5FBsVmvmUpLgdW0IOJcZcPFul+ZTqyvOao1NFKi7iWKAVvA6UVLatzbMa34blFpcdj+rC4UGFbDmb jZwFZ8bQ==; Original-Received: from [10.9.9.72] (helo=submission01.runbox) by mailtransmit03.runbox with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lCAI9-000622-SA; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:02:06 +0100 Original-Received: by submission01.runbox with esmtpsa [Authenticated alias (9149)] (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) id 1lCAHy-0002Um-I2; Wed, 17 Feb 2021 01:01:54 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Matt Armstrong's message of "Tue, 16 Feb 2021 10:10:45 -0800") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=91.220.196.211; envelope-from=horrigmo@runbox.no; helo=aibo.runbox.com X-Spam_score_int: -27 X-Spam_score: -2.8 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.8 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:264962 Archived-At: Matt Armstrong 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