From: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: help! Keep getting emacs locked up / not responding to c-g / having to kill process
Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2013 17:44:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ob761hrd.fsf@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: b162b39e-72f4-4f3d-8330-7254464cf17f@googlegroups.com
unfrostedpoptart <david@therogoffs.com> writes:
> However, lately (including 15 minutes ago) I've been hitting this and
> c-g does nothing and ps shows emacs at around 95% cpu. As this is a
> shared server, that doesn't make me popular with other users!
As Drew mentioned, it's hard to guess who the culprit is without more
details (recipe).
Anyway, in Unices you can force Emacs into the debugger, even if not
responsive, by sending SIGUSR2:
pkill -SIGUSR2 emacs
Using the debugger, you hopefully should be able to see where Emacs
loops.
Michael.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-03 15:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-03 4:53 help! Keep getting emacs locked up / not responding to c-g / having to kill process unfrostedpoptart
2013-10-03 14:20 ` Drew Adams
2013-10-03 15:44 ` Michael Heerdegen [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3317.1380815092.10748.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2013-10-03 16:54 ` unfrostedpoptart
2013-10-07 22:31 ` unfrostedpoptart
2013-10-07 23:18 ` Stefan Monnier
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