From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: D W Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Why would emacs be running on an idle system? Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 09:44:24 -0400 Message-ID: <97351faa0905270644q509969b3p85e4da3dfbd8d0f7@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=0016e6d32a1b901d8a046ae50aaf X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1243434540 12421 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2009 14:29:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 May 2009 14:29:00 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 27 16:28:58 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1M9K7m-0003Ah-1I for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 16:28:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37696 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9K7l-0005l4-HT for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 10:28:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9JQq-0007zD-Hp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:44:36 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M9JQi-0007ya-QH for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:44:35 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=35980 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M9JQh-0007yV-S0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:44:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-bw0-f161.google.com ([209.85.218.161]:41677) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M9JQh-0001Nk-DD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 May 2009 09:44:27 -0400 Original-Received: by bwz5 with SMTP id 5so4895925bwz.42 for ; Wed, 27 May 2009 06:44:24 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.223.115.146 with SMTP id i18mr39164faq.6.1243431864114; Wed, 27 May 2009 06:44:24 -0700 (PDT) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Mailman-Approved-At: Wed, 27 May 2009 10:27:31 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:64770 Archived-At: --0016e6d32a1b901d8a046ae50aaf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hello, I'm a casual emacs user, and I'm puzzled by this: Yesterday, I noticed that the hard drive was churning away on my idle laptop, even though I wasn't doing anything. I figured it was just a cron job or something, but for laughs and giggles, I opened an xterm and ran "top". And at the top of top, I see emacs22 as the top process. I had no emacs sessions open, and wasn't even using the system. Any ideas why I would see emacs22 in there or where I should look to find out what might have triggered this? This is Ubuntu (Xubuntu Hardy). Thanks, DW --0016e6d32a1b901d8a046ae50aaf Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Hello,

I'm a casual emacs user, and I'= ;m puzzled by this:

Yesterday, I noticed that the = hard drive was churning away on my idle laptop, even though I wasn't do= ing anything.=A0

I figured it was just a cron job or something, but for = laughs and giggles, I opened an xterm and ran "top".
And at the top of top, I see emacs22 as the top process.

I had no emacs sessions open, and wasn't even using= the system.

Any ideas why I would see emacs22= in there or where I should look to find out what might have triggered this= ?


This is Ubuntu (Xubuntu Hardy).

Thanks,
DW
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