From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs regularly hangs multiple seconds in e.g. find-file Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:20:00 +0200 Message-ID: <868tifvdv3.fsf@zoho.com> References: <87tw14opwn.fsf@h-brs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1503152465 18146 195.159.176.226 (19 Aug 2017 14:21:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2017 14:21:05 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 19 16:21:00 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 1dj4cV-0004Lq-6X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:20:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56085 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dj4cb-0006EV-NK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:53963) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dj4bx-0006DD-VZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dj4bt-00057H-2a for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:20:25 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=45791 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dj4bs-00056M-SW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2017 10:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dj4bf-0001Zh-Cr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Aug 2017 16:20:07 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Mail-Copies-To: never Cancel-Lock: sha1:KgUMYbJDmyYD2pPWPSxyHkUInvc= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:114083 Archived-At: Alexander Asteroth wrote: > Unfortunately after start it regularly hangs > for 10 or more seconds when doing find-file > or when starting a process (with > autocompletion). The frequency of these hangs > reduces as emacs uptime increases. Really wierd! Sounds like an "out of Emacs" issue tho... The only thing I can think of is it might be a disk thing, do you have enough space or does a single read cause the system to stall? That it gets better over time could then be explained by the cache filling up with the right stuff... -- underground experts united http://user.it.uu.se/~embe8573