From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Michael Slass Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs freezing up on Windows machine Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 08:10:15 -0700 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1094829314 918 80.91.224.253 (10 Sep 2004 15:15:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 15:15:14 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Sep 10 17:14:50 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C5n6v-0002rj-00 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 17:14:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1C5nCH-0001Op-S0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 10 Sep 2004 11:20:22 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.comcast.com!news.comcast.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:10:15 -0500 Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Kir7e8GbMZ705Q1vvgGySS4dqQI= Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.18.253.35 Original-X-Trace: sv3-a7IVbn6sfzxDLzeTDAJXnfIRCGSNLsjq6EGzcwaXtvlILH5T67JI82/lQiWaQIUJARlQB6Grs/RjqDi!iQiesrFvuWzZoxL0rU6CGTdEof4wT5cstGnzudvnE/+QNdVH/tHvgihW Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@comcast.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: dmca@comcast.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.13 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:125245 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:20599 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:20599 "Chris Swoyer" writes: >I am running GNU Emacs on a pretty good pentium 3 computer under >Windows XP Pro. Recently the screen started freezing or hanging now >and then (this isn't correlated with anything I can spot). It will >usually unfreeze after 30-60 seconds or so. Is there any likely >cause for this? Would it be sensible to reinstall Emacs (I'd >rather not have to, but it's almost unusable as is, so would if it >were likely to help). > >My Emacs: GNU Emacs 21.1.1 (i386-msvc-nt5.1.2.2600) of 2001-10-22 on buffy > >Thanks for any thoughts, >CS > > Emacs 21.3 has a bunch of bug fixes, so it might be worth upgrading right there. Does the Task Manager show emacs hogging the CPU during the frozen periods? -- Mike Slass