From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tyler Smith Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95 Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:56:20 -0400 Message-ID: <4AA80864.4090800@eku.edu> References: 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: ger.gmane.org 1252526226 28091 80.91.229.12 (9 Sep 2009 19:57:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 19:57:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" To: Matthew Daniel Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 09 21:56:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MlTHm-0004BG-D9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:56:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52183 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlTHl-0006xP-Tf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlTHO-0006vU-7y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MlTHJ-0006qd-M3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=41029 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MlTHJ-0006qa-HF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from ekuhub1.eku.edu ([157.89.36.110]:50702 helo=ekumail.eku.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_ARCFOUR_MD5:16) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlTHI-0002Gs-VK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:56:29 -0400 Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (157.89.133.36) by ekuhub1.eku.edu (157.89.36.112) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 8.1.393.1; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:56:22 -0400 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Windows 2000 SP4, XP SP1+ X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68008 Archived-At: Matthew Daniel wrote: > Periodically, emacs will pause - often with the Windows hourglass. It > does accept my keystrokes, because when it "releases" they appear in > the current buffer. These pauses last about 3 seconds, and I would not > characterize them as variable in length. I have not found any > systematic way of inducing the pause, but they happen pretty > frequently during a C-x C-s sequence. > > I had similar problems using the official Gnu Emacs release on Windows Vista, using an HP EliteBook. The program would freeze up periodically, not responding to anything for several seconds at a time. This happened often enough (once every few minutes or so) to make it unusable. Same thing with the version shipped with Cygwin. I switched to the version packaged by Vincent Goulet, and now everything works very smoothly. I'm not sure what he does, but it fixed my problem. The site is here: http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/ HTH, Tyler > I have experienced this on both Windows XP 32-bit and Windows Vista > 64-bit, on two separate machines (both Dells, and their only > commonality is that they both use an Intel X-25M SSD). > > My question is not necessarily "what is causing this", as I understand > that my description is very hand-wavey. However, if someone can tell > me what to check for, or how one would go about troubleshooting this > behavior, I will do my best to help me help you help me. :-) > > I have already tried starting `emacs.exe -q --no-site-file` to ensure > it isn't some local configuration problem. > > Any insight will be greatly appreciated, > -- /v\atthew > > p.s. please excuse this if it sends twice, I didn't have any luck the > first time I tried to send it. > > >