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* bug#10539: 24.0.92; low display-time-interval makes Emacs slow
@ 2012-01-18  1:52 Michael Heerdegen
  2012-01-27 21:30 ` Glenn Morris
  2022-04-23 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 25+ messages in thread
From: Michael Heerdegen @ 2012-01-18  1:52 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: 10539

Hello,

in emacs -Q, set `display-time-interval' to 1 and enable
`display-time-mode'.

The docstring of `display-time-interval' says "Seconds between updates
of time in the mode line.".  Ok, fine.  The doc of
`display-time-string-forms' includes an example which makes
`display-time-mode' show seconds.  So, the user may think setting
`display-time-interval' to 1 is a good idea.

But it is currently not, on the contrary.

First of all, `display-time-update' is a long, complex function.
Running only its calculations every second consumes some percent CPU by
itself.

Second, the doc of `display-time-update' says

  Update the display-time info for the mode line.
  However, don't redisplay right now.

But it _does_ redisplay, it calls `force-mode-line-update' explicitly at
the end of the code!

If I redefine `display-time-update' so that it doesn't call
`force-mode-line-update', the update of the time in the mode-line
surprisingly still works, I get an update every second.  So, maybe the
call to `force-mode-line-update' can be removed.

Now I disable global font lock and such CPU eating minor mode stuff.  I
visit my ~/.newsrc.eld which has 647k.  My CPU consumption gets nearly
100%, it takes several seconds until q (`View-quit') gets processed.  If
I visit that file with `display-time-mode' off, that doesn't happen.

So, at the end, you could try to make `display-time-mode' more
effective.  If `display-time-update' does redisplay, then the doc should
say so.  And if we can't improve things, then the docstring of
`display-time-interval' should say that low values are 
deprecated because they decrease Emacs' performance.


Thanks,

Michael.



In GNU Emacs 24.0.92.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.2.3)
 of 2012-01-11 on zelenka, modified by Debian
 (emacs-snapshot package, version 1:20120111-1)
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11102902
configured using `configure  '--build' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--host' 'i486-linux-gnu' '--prefix=/usr' '--sharedstatedir=/var/lib' '--libexecdir=/usr/lib' '--localstatedir=/var' '--infodir=/usr/share/info' '--mandir=/usr/share/man' '--with-pop=yes' '--enable-locallisppath=/etc/emacs-snapshot:/etc/emacs:/usr/local/share/emacs/24.0.92/site-lisp:/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/24.0.92/site-lisp:/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp' '--without-compress-info' '--with-crt-dir=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/' '--with-x=yes' '--with-x-toolkit=gtk3' '--with-imagemagick=yes' 'build_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'host_alias=i486-linux-gnu' 'CFLAGS=-DDEBIAN -DSITELOAD_PURESIZE_EXTRA=5000 -g -O2''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: de_DE.utf8
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: C
  value of $LANG: de_DE.utf8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t






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2012-01-18  1:52 bug#10539: 24.0.92; low display-time-interval makes Emacs slow Michael Heerdegen
2012-01-27 21:30 ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-28  8:40   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-28 11:07     ` martin rudalics
2012-01-28 19:43       ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-28 19:42     ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-28 20:28       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-28 20:51         ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-28 21:29           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-29  6:07             ` Glenn Morris
2012-01-29 16:07               ` Drew Adams
2012-01-29 17:11               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30  4:40                 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-30 17:44                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 22:01                     ` Stefan Monnier
2012-01-31  3:48                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-29 17:51             ` martin rudalics
2012-01-29 18:26               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 10:20                 ` martin rudalics
2012-01-30 18:02                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-01-30 18:13                     ` martin rudalics
2012-01-30 19:04                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-23 14:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-04-30  1:12   ` Michael Heerdegen
2022-04-30 11:46     ` Lars Ingebrigtsen

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