From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ian Zimmerman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: High CPU load after pressing arbitrary key (mostly in C mode) Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:48:12 -0700 Message-ID: <87zkj52kmr.fsf@matica.localdomain> References: <87ty9gf2va.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1313786918 29304 80.91.229.12 (19 Aug 2011 20:48:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 20:48:38 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Aug 19 22:48:35 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QuVzU-00089w-GU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 22:48:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50162 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuVzT-0001Kq-Sd for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:48:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:43481) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuVzP-0001Kj-KQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:48:28 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuVzO-0003SZ-Jl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:48:27 -0400 Original-Received: from li225-69.members.linode.com ([173.255.215.69]:56375 helo=ahiker.homeip.net) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QuVzO-0003OE-Fe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:48:26 -0400 Original-Received: from adsl-75-30-187-248.dsl.pltn13.sbcglobal.net ([75.30.187.248] helo=matica) by ahiker.homeip.net with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1QuVzH-0007MB-Bp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:48:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: <87ty9gf2va.fsf@steelpick.2x.cz> (Michal Sojka's message of "Wed, 17 Aug 2011 17:56:41 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 173.255.215.69 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:81988 Archived-At: Michal> Hi all, I experience a weird a problem. It appears more or less Michal> randomly, typically after using emacs for several hours. The Michal> responsiveness of emacs starts to be very slow. Whenever I press Michal> a key, for example to type some character, it appears on the Michal> screen in let say half a second. By pressing several keys fast, Michal> the CPU load goes to 100%. Maybe you're using a mode that doesn't properly clean after itself, for instance doesn't set markers to nil? -- Ian Zimmerman gpg public key: 1024D/C6FF61AD fingerprint: 66DC D68F 5C1B 4D71 2EE5 BD03 8A00 786C C6FF 61AD Rule 420: All persons more than eight miles high to leave the court.