From: Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
To: Sebastien Vauban <sva-news@mygooglest.com>, 20927@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20927: 24.5; Cygwin Emacs completely blocks for 5+ seconds
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:37 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55915E49.4010409@cornell.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vriuvbe6abvs.fsf@example.com>
On 6/29/2015 9:21 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When:
>
> 1. Starting Cygwin Emacs,
> 2. Opening whichever local file (`org-mode/lisp/org.el', in my case),
> and
> 3. Keeping constantly our index on the Down arrow key to make the buffer
> scroll indefinitely,
>
> Emacs blocks (after 30 seconds scroll or so) for 5 entire seconds, and
> then revives...
I can't reproduce this on my system. I held my finger on the down arrow
for about 2 minutes.
> I've tracked down this problem in Cygwin Emacs, and it's due to this
> line:
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (global-auto-revert-mode 1) ; Auto refresh buffers.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> When it's commented, Cygwin Emacs behaves normally.
>
> Note the above line does NOT cause any trouble in Windows Emacs...
One difference is that Cygwin Emacs uses gfilenotify, based on GLib. I
recall a discussion some time ago (either on emacs-devel or in a bug
report) about problems with gfilenotify, but I don't remember if the
problems were resolved.
Ken
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-29 15:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-06-29 13:21 bug#20927: 24.5; Cygwin Emacs completely blocks for 5+ seconds Sebastien Vauban
2015-06-29 15:03 ` Ken Brown [this message]
[not found] ` <55915E49.4010409-HmMyXyqgL2CVc3sceRu5cw@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-30 8:26 ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-06-29 15:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <83y4j24kqg.fsf-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-06-30 8:30 ` Sebastien Vauban
2015-06-30 15:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6028.1435677495.904.bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
[not found] ` <mailman.6028.1435677495.904.bug-gnu-emacs-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org>
2015-07-02 9:09 ` Sebastien Vauban
2016-12-07 21:03 ` Glenn Morris
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