From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Barton Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.orgmode,gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: diagnosing emacs hangs Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 07:04:50 +0100 Message-ID: <4C205282.6070307@manor-farm.org> References: Reply-To: lists@manor-farm.org 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 1277186808 6045 80.91.229.12 (22 Jun 2010 06:06:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:06:48 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org To: Matt Price Original-X-From: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 22 08:06:46 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geo-emacs-orgmode@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQwdA-0006Ml-68 for geo-emacs-orgmode@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 08:06:44 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57261 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQwd8-00054I-Tc for geo-emacs-orgmode@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:06:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35981 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OQwbO-0004SR-N9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:04:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQwbN-0004gW-Hy for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:04:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.ian-barton.com ([109.74.196.44]:56151 helo=li40-130.members.linode.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OQwbN-0004gQ-BY; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:04:53 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost (mail.wilkesley.org [127.0.0.1]) by li40-130.members.linode.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D288A20C; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:04:52 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at li40-130.members.linode.com Original-Received: from li40-130.members.linode.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.manor-farm.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id v9JBShEC1h+t; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:04:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.60] (unknown [217.146.125.41]) (Authenticated sender: ian@manor-farm.org) by li40-130.members.linode.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AEBA7A1E1; Tue, 22 Jun 2010 06:04:51 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9) Gecko/20100423 Thunderbird/3.0.4 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.orgmode:26421 gmane.emacs.help:73948 Archived-At: On 22/06/10 02:18, Matt Price wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm now using emacs for almost everything and of course that's great, > except that it is essentially a single-threaded OS that currently > HANGS with some frequency (100% CPU usgte that will continue for hours > if you let it go. I think this probably has something to do with > wanderlust or possibly org-mode (and/or misconfigurations i've made to > both of these); but at present i cna't be sure since i have no idea > how to diagnose these hangs. Can someone give me some general > directions on how to proceed with the diagnosis, and if you have them, > some pointers on how you fixed a similar problem that you used to > have? Right now it's very frustrating -- I find myself losing > substantial amounts of work when I kill emacs& maybe more > importantly, i'm constantly losing my train of thought. > > This is all under Ubuntu Lucid with emacs-snapshot 20090909, > wanderlust=wl-beta 2.15.9+0.20100303, org-mode 6.34c (some of htese > are debian sid packages). > Have you tried starting Emacs from a terminal? That might give you some better idea of the error. Ian. _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode