Justin Van Winkle <justin.vanwinkle@gmail.com> writes:
Hi Justin,
> I enable global-auto-revert-mode. I noticed that when I was scp'ing a
> large file to my home directory, every emacs process on my machine was
> trying to use 100% cpu. When I stopped the file transfer, emacs would
> go back to idle cpu usage. I ran the emacs profiler and narrowed it
> down to revert-buffer. Auto revert was apparently listening for
> changes in my home directory, even for things like file creation or
> file modified for files emacs did not have open.
How did you "scp'ing a large file"? Inside Emacs, using Tramp, or
outside Emacs?
Best regards, Michael.