From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Odd slowness in grep and dired modes Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:57:07 +0200 Message-ID: <83pplg53q4.fsf@gnu.org> References: <3a2879e3-cb96-495c-a6a4-6bb790449477@googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1395392232 32365 80.91.229.3 (21 Mar 2014 08:57:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:57:12 +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 Mar 21 09:57:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1WQvGS-0007jp-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 09:57:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51408 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQvGS-0001wN-F1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38365) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQvG9-0001wE-2W for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:57:08 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQvG1-0007Fi-PU for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:57:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:63880) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WQvG1-0007FW-Hd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 04:56:53 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N2S00K003C4EM00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:56:52 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N2S00K803IR4O70@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Mar 2014 10:56:52 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:96666 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 01:25:46 -0700 (PDT) > From: Smith_RS > Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 08:25:46 +0000 > > On Friday, March 21, 2014 1:13:06 AM UTC-7, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > What exactly "slows to a crawl" in these situations? > > I trace Emacs using Process Explorer, on a machine with 4 available cores I see 25% utilization which (to my understanding) means it's at 100% on that core. It takes as long as 30 seconds to a minute to catch up. Nothing similar is seen on my system. > If I do a non-trivial grep, my attempts to select files out of the grep results creates enough lag to make the selection process not usable. Sorry, I don't understand: lag between which events? > Even when I do all the things to turn off tooltips it doesn't stop the behavior. Which means the mouse-fixup-help-message is a red herring. Some other factor is at work here. Did this start lately? If so, what changed around the time this started happening? Also, does this happen in "emacs -Q"? If not, I'd suspect some customization you have on your .emacs init file.