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From: kgthegreat <kgthegreat@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only)
Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 18:12:28 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5d07da3a-13a7-404c-9a57-a923d3d05003@googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.155.1424033000.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>

> Emacs often hangs on startup on Mac OS X. The hangs are non-deterministic
> but frequent (25-50% of runs), consume 100% of CPU, and only happen when
> starting Emacs.app with the GUI enabled, never when running in text mode on
> the command-line. I have reproduced the hangs with an empty .emacs file and
> after having completely removed .emacs.d.

I used to face this problem on MBP. Due to the following observations, I think this problem is related to memory consumption.

1. Never happens after a restart, if emacs is the first app to run.
2. Almost always happens if emacs is run when MBP is up for a long time with lot of other apps.
3. Killing most apps especially chrome and then starting emacs = success.

Since then, I have upgraded the RAM from 2 + 2 config to 8 + 2 and have never faced this issue so far.


       reply	other threads:[~2015-02-16  2:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.155.1424033000.31049.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2015-02-16  2:12 ` kgthegreat [this message]
2015-03-29 17:49   ` Hang on startup on OS X (GUI only) imi.horvath
2015-04-11 21:03 ` enterprise
2015-05-07  4:37 ` bitti1975
2015-10-13 15:38   ` davidmortensen
2015-10-14  2:50     ` Stefan Monnier
2015-11-01 17:30       ` Guido Van Hoecke
2016-02-20 12:45 ` enrique.manjavacas
2016-02-20 17:02   ` Guido Van Hoecke
2015-02-15 19:28 Elliott Slaughter
2015-02-15 21:01 ` Guido Van Hoecke
2015-02-15 21:20 ` Drew Adams
2015-02-16 17:03   ` Elliott Slaughter

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