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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Len Trigg <lenbok@gmail.com>
Cc: 122@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org
Subject: bug#122: 23.0.60; Slowdown in directory scanning over time.
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2008 00:18:54 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fxo771sh.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <hb3ak7qs17.wl%len@netvalue.net.nz> (Len Trigg's message of "Thu,  11 Sep 2008 15:29:24 +1200")

Len Trigg <lenbok@gmail.com> writes:

> OK, I started a new emacs a couple of days ago under gdb.  I ran the
> lisp snippet scanning /usr/bin and it reported 0 seconds... Today the
> lisp snippet took 7 seconds to run.  Again, I repeated the call and
> took several backtraces.
>
> The calls seem to be in a fairly even balance of mixture of
> Fget_buffer and Fgarbage_collect.  Why creating a list of files in a
> directory should be calling get_buffer is beyond me. list-buffers
> shows about 40 buffers, and when I try switch-to-buffer with a leading
> space, there are about 200 buffers listed (about 170 of which are
> named like *code-conversion-work*<nnn>)

That's very odd: those buffers are used for code conversion, and they
ought to be killed automatically.

Could you check if you have anything unusual in
kill-buffer-query-functions or kill-buffer hook?







  reply	other threads:[~2008-09-11  4:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-26 22:29 bug#122: 23.0.60; Slowdown in directory scanning over time Chong Yidong
2008-08-27  3:02 ` Len Trigg
2008-08-31 21:57 ` Len Trigg
2008-09-02  1:09   ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-11  3:29     ` Len Trigg
2008-09-11  4:18       ` Chong Yidong [this message]
     [not found]       ` <E1KdpeJ-0004Sb-Oj@fencepost.gnu.org>
2008-09-11 22:35         ` Len Trigg
2008-09-12  0:42           ` Chong Yidong
2008-09-12  4:00             ` Len Trigg
2008-09-14 21:24               ` Len Trigg
2008-09-15  1:04         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-15  2:42           ` Len Trigg
2008-09-15 18:26           ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-16  1:09             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-16 16:18               ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-15 18:26           ` Richard M. Stallman
2008-09-16  1:27             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-16 13:25               ` Stefan Monnier
2008-09-17  2:19                 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-09-17 16:02                   ` Stefan Monnier

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