From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: wbp@nodomain.invalid (Will Parsons) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs 21 or snapshot? Date: 11 May 2007 17:16:02 GMT Organization: Westinghouse Electric Company Message-ID: References: <133h07p3lok86ee@corp.supernews.com> <85ejly2rre.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <85lkg5y28l.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> Reply-To: william.b.parsons@us.westinghouse.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1178907284 5481 80.91.229.12 (11 May 2007 18:14:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 May 2007 18:14:44 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 11 20:14:43 2007 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 1HmZda-0000rQ-0P for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 20:14:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HmZl1-0003JU-En for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 May 2007 14:22:23 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 69 Original-X-Trace: individual.net 88El5qJbNA5Uk64AqPxU/AA5+Q13l7ST0w6Euy2WdGNzp3AcD0 User-Agent: slrn/0.9.7.1 (Win32) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148303 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 11 May 2007 14:12:04 -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:43898 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I tried out your patched version, but it seems to react the same - the >> file is saved to the remote system very quickly, but Emacs becomes >> unresponsive for a couple of minutes after. (This is using tramp with ftp.) >> I'll play around some more with it. If you have any suggestions on any >> settings to look at that might be relevant, I'd be interested. > > When Emacs is non-responsive, there are always the same things to look at: > 1 - is it fully unresponsive: i.e. does C-g break out of the hang? > 2 - if C-g breaks out of it, what backtrace does it give, if you set > Options -> Enter Debugger on Quit? Well, it never occurred to me to try C-g, but it does indeed break out of the hang. The backtrace doesn't enlighten me any, but in case it is suggestive to someone more knowledgeable, I'm including it (uuencoded since it seems to contain control characters). ----------------------------------------- begin 644 backtrace.txt M1&5B=6=G97(@96YT97)E9"TM3&ES<"!E2AT2AS879E+6)U9F9E 3 - If C-g doesn't help, run Emacs under a debugger and while it's frozen, > interrupt the program from the debugger and check the backtrace (and do > that repeatedly a few times, comparing the various backtraces you get, > so as to determine at while level of the backtrace is the looping > happening). Thanks for the suggestions, - Will