From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Debugging advice Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 19:19:02 +0300 Message-ID: <834lvf29e1.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1497630104 822 195.159.176.226 (16 Jun 2017 16:21:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 16:21:44 +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 Jun 16 18:21:40 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dLu0A-0008Px-My for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 18:21:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59797 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLu0F-00020L-Mw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:21:43 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57426) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLtxw-0000cv-FE for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:19:21 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLtxs-0004Wk-56 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:19:20 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:55796) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dLtxs-0004We-1Y for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:19:16 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4858 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dLtxr-0002Eb-4U for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Jun 2017 12:19:15 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Adam Taylor on Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:58:27 -0400) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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 Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:113493 Archived-At: > From: Adam Taylor > Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 09:58:27 -0400 > > My environment is (maybe unfortunately) Cygwin64 under Windows, of course. > > Occasionally while working emacs stops responding to me and I watch it's > memory consumption rise from 407MB to 1533MB along with a ramp in CPU usage. > > I want to find out what it is doing and can not find any information on how > to monitor background activity in Emacs. > > Another clue is it doesn't seem to happen if Emacs is just quiescent: Just > up on the screen but I'm not actively using it. When using the editor, the > problem occurs on a relatively frequent beat rate - once every few minutes. > It takes out Emacs for about 20 seconds or so. > > I've turned off anything on a time (like desktop-save-mode). > > I'd love to figure out what Emacs runs off and does > > Any pointers are greatly appreciated. When Emacs freezes like that, attach a debugger and produce a C-level backtrace. Then report the backtrace together with any other relevant details in a bug report created by "M-x report-emacs-bug RET" (in a separate Emacs session, of course). Send that to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. Thanks.