* Why would emacs be running on an idle system?
@ 2009-05-27 13:44 D W
2009-05-27 15:34 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: D W @ 2009-05-27 13:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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?
This is Ubuntu (Xubuntu Hardy).
Thanks,
DW
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* Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?
2009-05-27 13:44 D W
@ 2009-05-27 15:34 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Peter Dyballa @ 2009-05-27 15:34 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: D W; +Cc: help-gnu-emacs
Am 27.05.2009 um 15:44 schrieb D W:
> Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look
> to find
> out what might have triggered this?
Do you have pstree to see the tree of processes involved in creating
that GNU Emacs 22 process?
--
Greetings
Pete
Theory and practice are the same, in theory, but, in practice, they
are different.
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* Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?
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@ 2009-05-27 15:47 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
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From: Pascal J. Bourguignon @ 2009-05-27 15:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:
> Am 27.05.2009 um 15:44 schrieb D W:
>
>> Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look
>> to find
>> out what might have triggered this?
>
>
> Do you have pstree to see the tree of processes involved in creating
> that GNU Emacs 22 process?
or: ps fax with procps.
--
__Pascal Bourguignon__
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* Re: Why would emacs be running on an idle system?
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@ 2009-05-28 1:06 ` Barry Margolin
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From: Barry Margolin @ 2009-05-28 1:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
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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.
--
Barry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu
Arlington, MA
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