Spurious unresponsiveness

Spurious unresponsiveness

[Andreas Politz]

Hi,

after hacking around in some C code for hours, I notice frequent periods
of 3-5 seconds, in which emacs is busy doing something else.  This is
very irritating.

Does someone have a guess, who the evildoer may be ?

debug-on-quit does not work.  My guess is, that it is related to some
timer.

-ap

Re: Spurious unresponsiveness

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.11.2009 um 07:35 schrieb Andreas Politz:

> Does someone have a guess, who the evildoer may be ?


Garbage collection?

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Re: Spurious unresponsiveness

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:35:20 +0100
> 
> after hacking around in some C code for hours, I notice frequent periods
> of 3-5 seconds, in which emacs is busy doing something else.  This is
> very irritating.
> 
> Does someone have a guess, who the evildoer may be ?

Set garbage-collection-messages non-nil, and see if you see any
messages during these periods of unresponsiveness.

Re: Spurious unresponsiveness

[Andreas Politz]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andreas Politz <politza@fh-trier.de>
>> Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 07:35:20 +0100
>> 
>> after hacking around in some C code for hours, I notice frequent periods
>> of 3-5 seconds, in which emacs is busy doing something else.  This is
>> very irritating.
>> 
>> Does someone have a guess, who the evildoer may be ?
>
> Set garbage-collection-messages non-nil, and see if you see any
> messages during these periods of unresponsiveness.

Ok, I remember it for next time, since it is gone now , though it's the
same emacs session.

-ap

Re: Spurious unresponsiveness

[Colin S. Miller]

Andreas Politz wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> after hacking around in some C code for hours, I notice frequent periods
> of 3-5 seconds, in which emacs is busy doing something else.  This is
> very irritating.
> 
> Does someone have a guess, who the evildoer may be ?
> 
autosaving large files?

HTH,
Colin S. Miller

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