bug#27670: 25.2; emacs GUI hangs when rxvt is busy displaying logs

bug#27670: 25.2; emacs GUI hangs when rxvt is busy displaying logs

[zhanghj]

system: debian 8 stable x86_64
emacs: emacs 25.2

1. Start rxvt-unicode and tmux.
2. Run a test program in tmux, which just prints text(include chinese chars) as fast as it can.
3. Start emacs GUI with "emacs -Q". Then open xdisp.c in emacs, and keep
pressing the "down" key.
4. After about 15 seconds, emacs GUI hangs.
5. Kill the test program in 2. Emacs GUI still hangs.




In GNU Emacs 25.2.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin16.5.0, NS appkit-1504.82 Version 10.12.4 (Build 16E195))
 of 2017-05-01 built on jundemac
Windowing system distributor 'Apple', version 10.3.1504
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bug#27670: emacs hangs

[zhanghj]

Keeping pressing the "down" key may be not sufficient on high
performance computers. You can replace the "down" key with the
"pagedown" key.

The operation on emacs now:
Keep pressing the "pagedown" key. When emacs lags, keep pressing the
"down" key.

Repeat the above operation. Emacs finally hangs and can't recover after
about 10 minutes. 10 minutes later after I close the busy rxvt window,
emacs still hangs (with no cpu usage). It seems that it will never
recover.

When it hangs, I can't close the emacs window because it doesn't
respond. I can only kill the emacs process.

I reproduced the problem more than 3 times on my linux machine recently.
Now I can't do heavy work on emacs, when my console app is outputing too
many logs in tmux (in rxvt), because emacs may hangs.

bug#27670: emacs hangs

[Daniel Clemente]

Try to disable XIM, by adding this to ~/.Xresources
emacs*useXIM: off
…and reload it with xrdb .Xresources.

This corrected the hang in emacs for me, for many years. But rxvt still keeps hanging under the same conditions you describe. This is related to xcb_wait_for_event, see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=78081

bug#27670: 25.2; emacs GUI hangs when rxvt is busy displaying logs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

zhanghj <netjunegg@gmail.com> writes:

> 1. Start rxvt-unicode and tmux.
> 2. Run a test program in tmux, which just prints text(include chinese chars) as fast as it can.
> 3. Start emacs GUI with "emacs -Q". Then open xdisp.c in emacs, and keep
> pressing the "down" key.
> 4. After about 15 seconds, emacs GUI hangs.
> 5. Kill the test program in 2. Emacs GUI still hangs.

(I'm going through old bug reports that unfortunately got little response at
the time.)

Are you still seeing these issues in more recent versions of Emacs?  The
issue seems to be related to XIM functionality, and I vaguely remember
there being some fixes in that area recently.

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bug#27670: 25.2; emacs GUI hangs when rxvt is busy displaying logs

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Are you still seeing these issues in more recent versions of Emacs?  The
> issue seems to be related to XIM functionality, and I vaguely remember
> there being some fixes in that area recently.

More information was requested, but no response was given within a
few months, so I'm closing this bug report.  If the problem still exists,
please respond to this email and we'll reopen the bug report.

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