From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Vincent Goulet Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: occasional pause (or stutter) on win32 emacs 23.0.95 Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:57:00 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1252742028 18353 80.91.229.12 (12 Sep 2009 07:53:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:53:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 12 09:53:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1MmNQS-0003xg-9n for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:53:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50020 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MmNQR-00045k-Qf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:53:39 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!l9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 62 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.203.22.21 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1252706220 10327 127.0.0.1 (11 Sep 2009 21:57:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:57:00 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: l9g2000yqi.googlegroups.com; posting-host=132.203.22.21; posting-account=oB2_vgoAAACjsuCioxrpB_HMfxSuMhdG User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_6; fr-fr) AppleWebKit/531.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.3 Safari/531.9, gzip(gfe), gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:172938 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 03:50:08 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:68067 Archived-At: On 9 sep, 15:56, Tyler Smith wrote: > Matthew Daniel wrote: > > Periodically, emacs will pause - often with the Windows hourglass. It > > does accept my keystrokes, because when it "releases" they appear in > > the current buffer. These pauses last about 3 seconds, and I would not > > characterize them as variable in length. I have not found any > > systematic way of inducing the pause, but they happen pretty > > frequently during a C-x C-s sequence. > > I had similar problems using the official Gnu Emacs release on Windows > Vista, using an HP EliteBook. The program would freeze up periodically, > not responding to anything for several seconds at a time. This happened > often enough (once every few minutes or so) to make it unusable. Same > thing with the version shipped with Cygwin. > > I switched to the version packaged by Vincent Goulet, and now everything > works very smoothly. I'm not sure what he does, but it fixed my problem. > The site is here: > > http://vgoulet.act.ulaval.ca/en/ressources/emacs/ [Thanks to Elena for pointing me to this discussion.] My distribution is built from the precompiled binaries distribution at gnu.org. I do make one modification, though, that _was_ important back in the 21.x days when I started building a distribution. Does freezing happen when you switch from Emacs to another application and then back? I found out (can't remember how) way back that this happens when no HOME environment variable is defined. That's why it is automatically created by my installation wizard when the variable does not previously exist. That may do the trick. HTH Vincent > > HTH, > > Tyler> I have experienced this on both Windows XP 32-bit and Windows Vist= a > > 64-bit, on two separate machines (both Dells, and their only > > commonality is that they both use an Intel X-25M SSD). > > > My question is not necessarily "what is causing this", as I understand > > that my description is very hand-wavey. However, if someone can tell > > me what to check for, or how one would go about troubleshooting this > > behavior, I will do my best to help me help you help me. :-) > > > I have already tried starting `emacs.exe -q --no-site-file` to ensure > > it isn't some local configuration problem. > > > =A0Any insight will be greatly appreciated, > > =A0-- /v\atthew > > > p.s. please excuse this if it sends twice, I didn't have any luck the > > first time I tried to send it.