Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?

[Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu>]

In article <mailman.7913.1243434453.31690.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>,
 D W <lists@duanewinner.net> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm a casual emacs user, and I'm puzzled by this:
> 
> Yesterday, I noticed that the hard drive was churning away on my idle
> laptop, even though I wasn't doing anything.
> 
> I figured it was just a cron job or something, but for laughs and giggles, I
> opened an xterm and ran "top".
> 
> And at the top of top, I see emacs22 as the top process.
> 
> I had no emacs sessions open, and wasn't even using the system.
> 
> Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look to find
> out what might have triggered this?

The times that I've found Emacs running heavily, it was because I was 
running a shell command that was printing a high volume of output to a 
buffer.

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Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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