Re: Emacs Slowdown

[phillip.lord@newcastle.ac.uk (Phillip Lord)]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Slight worried that one of my own packages is in the list although, it's
>> does not appear to be called often.  To my knowledge I didn't actually
>> drag-region during this period, so am confused about this.
>
> The down part of a single mouse-click calls mouse-drag-region (because
> at that point we don't know yet whether you're about to drag or just to
> click).
>
> I don't see any tell-tale problem in the Elisp profile.

I will try and see if this is repeatable.


>> This Emacs hung eventually and had to be xkill'd.
>
> Ah, then a C-level backtrace might be helpful.  I.e. instead of killing
> the beast, attach to it with GDB.


Okay, that's going to take a bit more learning on my behalf, bit I will
work on this next.

Phil