Ubuntu Karmic : Emacs 23.1.1 regularly hangs for about 6 seconds

Ubuntu Karmic : Emacs 23.1.1 regularly hangs for about 6 seconds

[deech]

Hi all,
This is the first time I've used Ubuntu's emacs package (I usually
compile my own) and I'm running into a problem where Emacs becomes non-
responsive for about 6 seconds. This seems to happen once every couple
of minutes and I can't tie it to anything I am doing. I tried turning
off auto-save but that didn't work.

I am running an emacs server in a screen session and editing in an X
session using the 'emacsclient -c' command.

Does anyone have any insights on this?

thanks ...
-deech

[SOLVED]Re: Ubuntu Karmic : Emacs 23.1.1 regularly hangs for about 6 seconds

[deech]

The problem was that my system was hanging on reading the battery
meter which is invoked by (display-battery-mode) in my startup file. I
could replicate this problem by starting a vanilla emacs (emacs --no-
init) and running the battery meter command (M-x display-battery-
mode).

By removing (display-battery-mode) from my .emacs file I eliminated
the problem (from the emacs department anyway).

I am running Ubuntu Karmic on a MacBook Pro 2,1,2. Given that it is a
vanilla install (of Ubuntu and emacs) so this might be a widespread
problem on this model of Macbook.

thanks ...
-deech


On Jan 26, 12:50 pm, deech <aditya.si...@gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi all,
> This is the first time I've used Ubuntu's emacs package (I usually
> compile my own) and I'm running into a problem where Emacs becomes non-
> responsive for about 6 seconds. This seems to happen once every couple
> of minutes and I can't tie it to anything I am doing. I tried turning
> off auto-save but that didn't work.
>
> I am running an emacs server in a screen session and editing in an X
> session using the 'emacsclient -c' command.
>
> Does anyone have any insights on this?
>
> thanks ...
> -deech

Re: [SOLVED]Re: Ubuntu Karmic : Emacs 23.1.1 regularly hangs for about 6 seconds

[Ken Hori]

I've been using Ubuntu Karmic on a PC, but display-display-mode never
caused a problem before. That's probably peculiar to Macs or to your
Mac environment.

On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 9:41 AM, deech <aditya.siram@gmail.com> wrote:
> The problem was that my system was hanging on reading the battery
> meter which is invoked by (display-battery-mode) in my startup file. I
> could replicate this problem by starting a vanilla emacs (emacs --no-
> init) and running the battery meter command (M-x display-battery-
> mode).
>
> By removing (display-battery-mode) from my .emacs file I eliminated
> the problem (from the emacs department anyway).
>
> I am running Ubuntu Karmic on a MacBook Pro 2,1,2. Given that it is a
> vanilla install (of Ubuntu and emacs) so this might be a widespread
> problem on this model of Macbook.
>
> thanks ...
> -deech
>
>
> On Jan 26, 12:50 pm, deech <aditya.si...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>> Hi all,
>> This is the first time I've used Ubuntu's emacs package (I usually
>> compile my own) and I'm running into a problem where Emacs becomes non-
>> responsive for about 6 seconds. This seems to happen once every couple
>> of minutes and I can't tie it to anything I am doing. I tried turning
>> off auto-save but that didn't work.
>>
>> I am running an emacs server in a screen session and editing in an X
>> session using the 'emacsclient -c' command.
>>
>> Does anyone have any insights on this?
>>
>> thanks ...
>> -deech
>
>