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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu.emacs.bug/news/@RUM.cs.yale.edu>
Subject: Re: Emacs 21.2 - Garbage collector frenzy :-)
Date: 22 Apr 2002 05:38:11 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5lsn5o3wfw.fsf@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: oq8z7g7cld.fsf@titan.progiciels-bpi.ca

>>>>> "François" == François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> The problem is that, at regular intervals (maybe once every fifteen
> minutes or so, I did not precisely timed it), Emacs suddenly starts
> burning CPU solidly for about 20 seconds, not responding to commands,
> and in particular, not responding to `C-g's.  This occurs spontaneously,

A shot in the dark: do you happen to use font-lock (with jit-lock,
which is the case by default) and do you happen to have some very
large buffers (a typical case would be a large RMAIL buffer) ?


	Stefan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2002-04-22  9:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-22  1:21 Emacs 21.2 - Garbage collector frenzy :-) François Pinard
2002-04-22  4:43 ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-04-22  5:29   ` David desJardins
2002-04-22  8:37     ` Pavel Janík
2002-04-22  7:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22  9:52   ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-22 11:22     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-22 14:31       ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-22  9:38 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]

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