From: Austin Bingham <austin.bingham@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Help understanding some bad emacs behavior
Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 15:58:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAEZidR2W6mY3=0AOb+tJ0N19OBHgrBDJi+b9nh77opWENvDRvw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvmw7qshr2.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
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Thanks for the guidance. The profiler definitely cleared things up. The
pretty-print function was getting a really large structure, and all of the
time was being spent in calculating indentation. Thanks again.
Austin
On Sun Nov 16 2014 at 8:10:15 PM Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
wrote:
> > Sorry, good point. The emacs process maxes out one of my cores for a few
> > minutes. During this time emacs seems unresponsive to input, though it
> does
> > redraw on the screen.
>
> You can try M-x profiler-start RET RET before and M-x profiler-report
> RET afterwards, which should tell you where time was spent.
>
> > Maybe the deep-seeming stack of Ffuncall/exec_byte_code/etc. is normal,
> but
> > it was remarkable enough to me that I thought I'd mention it.
>
> Yes, it's perfectly normal. If you think of how an interpreter works,
> the C-level backtrace will typically look like a (deep) nesting of calls
> between functions called "eval" or "apply" or "call".
>
> > What's the best way to get that? Bear in mind that, as far as I can tell,
> > emacs isn't responding to input when I see this problem. And since I
> don't
> > really know where this is happening in elisp-land, I'm not sure where to
> > add instrumentation or anything like that.
>
> You can try (setq debug-on-quit t) and hitting C-g.
> If that doesn't work, do a "kill -USR2 <emacspid>" which should also
> drop you into the debugger.
>
>
> Stefan
>
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-11-16 13:09 Help understanding some bad emacs behavior Austin Bingham
2014-11-16 19:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-16 21:32 ` Austin Bingham
2014-11-17 2:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-17 15:58 ` Austin Bingham [this message]
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