From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: justin.vanwinkle@gmail.com, 33194@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#33194: 26.1; Auto-revert mode causes emacs to use 100% cpu whenever a file is being written to in the home directory
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 14:28:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83zhuvk497.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zhuvaf3w.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:44:19 +0100)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: justin.vanwinkle@gmail.com, 33194@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2018 11:44:19 +0100
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> One defense action which comes to mind is to manage the incoming
> >> events. If there is a burst of `change' events in a short time, they
> >> could be cumulated to one event, as inotify does. Implemented in
> >> `file-notify-handle-event', this would applicable to all file
> >> notification backends, and not only to inotify.
> >
> > But won't that by itself require CPU for processing?
>
> Yes, but is doesn't call `revert-buffer' for every single `change'
> event.
I believe you are saying that most of the CPU cycles are spent in the
actual reverting. That might be so, but it isn't 100% sure, and I
think we need some data to back that up.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-30 12:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-29 16:01 bug#33194: 26.1; Auto-revert mode causes emacs to use 100% cpu whenever a file is being written to in the home directory Justin Van Winkle
2018-10-29 20:27 ` Michael Albinus
2018-10-29 21:13 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-10-29 21:14 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-10-30 6:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 8:39 ` Michael Albinus
2018-10-30 10:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 10:44 ` Michael Albinus
2018-10-30 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-10-30 13:12 ` Michael Albinus
2018-10-30 16:18 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-10-30 16:58 ` Michael Albinus
2018-10-30 17:02 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-10-30 17:08 ` Michael Albinus
2018-10-30 17:09 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-10-30 17:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-10-30 18:54 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-10-30 18:55 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-11-03 10:57 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-04 11:58 ` Michael Albinus
2018-11-05 16:28 ` Justin Van Winkle
2018-11-05 21:18 ` Michael Albinus
2019-01-04 12:56 ` Michael Albinus
2019-03-28 12:36 ` Michael Albinus
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